#release-engineering (2021-04)

You can call a workflow from ./something

so imagine step one is to call vendir to clone the remote somethings

then your subsequent steps from the checked out workflows.

the gist of it is here: https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/95#issue-532856384

my pseudo code…

name: CI

on: [push]

jobs:
  build:

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - run: vendir ....
    - name: Run the private action
      uses: ./myaction1
      with:
        who-to-greet: "Mona the Octocat"
    - name: Run the private action
      uses: ./myaction2
      with:
        who-to-greet: "Mona the Octocat"

cc: @Igor Rodionov

Oh this is super interesting, thanks very much

the remote piece has to be a fully fleshed Github Action, is that correct? Not just a ‘stub’ of a workflow? (the latter was the impression I was getting)

Ya, though I think we also talked about using gomplate

at the point you’re doing the gloves are off and everything goes.

you can use cookie cutter an generate actions etc

Ahh ok yah thats cool. We’re not writing ‘actions’ but we wanted a few stanardized workflows that people could embed

Hello, I think your are looking for this https://github.com/spekt8/spekt8

Thanks! While it looks promising and I’ll definitely give it a try, the request I have is a bit different. There are people who are far from technical stuff, they know nothing about pods, ingresses, etc. What they want to have is a “simplified dashboard” - only k8s services should be shown (or Helm releases that is also an option) with some additional basic info like their versions, statuses, etc. Probably this tool can be used for this basic info as well by disabling unnecessary stuff. Thanks again for your suggestion.

Weave Scope is also a nice dashboard primarily for ops people as well https://www.weave.works/oss/scope/

I guess you could put a bunch in front and see what they like? Octant, kube dashboard, etc. Why do they want to see this?

On another angle, what about dashboards like Grafana? Our home page has the stats most people interested in, Customer success can see usage etc.

https://github.com/FairwindsOps/nova

Ah GruntWorks implemented their own microplane. Cool.

cc @RB @Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

@Jeremy G (Cloud Posse)

@Maxim Mironenko (Cloud Posse)

very cool. if gruntworks is behind it, im sure it will be better than microplane (which works but has some noticeable bugs)

Looks good. I’m hoping I will get to finish my PR for Cloud Posse to have an automated script (downloaded from build-harness so we can change it whenever we want) run in every repo every night, which will have the added advantage of being able to have the PRs automatically approved and merged, but until then, this looks very helpful.

looks promising, thanks for the link

i signed up when it was mentioned at the last office hours, but i wouldn’t say i’m “using” it to any degree…

oh I didn’t know it was mentioned haha. I found it via search. I was looking for pricing (their page doesn’t have any info) but they responded to my email very quickly

$59 on github marketplace for the highest tier with unlimited repos

Seems nice, a bit slow on dashboard loading but I suspect its hosted entirely in the EU

it’s interesting. i like the metrics for github actions. i wish it got metrics from travis-ci also

Raises the question again of “why doesn’t github have this built-in”

oh yeah, they need an org-wide dashboard for github actions. that was the exact question that came up in office hours…