Garden Github Action

This action installs garden and can optionally be used to run any Garden command, for example deploy, test or run workflow.

Garden combines rapid development, testing, and DevOps automation in one tool.

This action will perform the following steps:

1. Download Garden from the GitHub release artifacts for the given version (default latest) at garden-io/garden

2. Verify the SHA256 checksum

3. Export garden to the PATH, so it can be used from any scripts in the following steps of the GitHub Action job.

4. If the command option is provided, it will run the given garden command.

   If the command option is not provided it will only prepare garden, which means it will install Garden and export it to the PATH environment variable. It will also export the GARDEN_AUTH_TOKEN environment variable garden-auth-token is configured.

   This is helpful when calling garden in scripts from one of the following steps.

Note: At the moment this action only works with Linux-based GitHub Action runners. If you are using macOS or Windows runners and need this action, please open a GitHub issue – in case there is demand, we will rewrite this action to make it platform-independent. (We also accept Pull requests for rewriting this Action in Typescript)

Inputs

command

Optional The Garden command to execute, including all options. For example deploy, test, run workflow etc.

If not provided, the garden-action will

• install garden and export it to the PATH environment variable for subsequent steps
• export the GARDEN_AUTH_TOKEN environment variable for subsequent steps if the garden-auth-token input has been provided

For the full documentation please refer to the Garden CLI documentation.

garden-version

Optional Garden version. Default is latest

garden-auth-token

Optional A token to authenticate to Garden Cloud.

The secret will be masked to prevent accidental exposure in logs.

If no command has been supplied, the action will expose this value to the the following steps in the GitHub Action job by exporting a GARDEN_AUTH_TOKEN environment variable.

garden-workdir

Optional A path to a garden project in a repository.

Only necessary if there are multiple garden projects in a repository or if the project.garden.yml is in a subdirectory.

github-token

Optional This token will be used to authenticate to GitHub API for fetching the latest Garden release. Defaults to ${{ github.token }}.

The secret will be masked to prevent accidental exposure in logs.

Outputs

The garden-action does not export any outputs.

Example usage

This example uses the aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials action beforehand to authenticate to AWS. This might look different with other cloud providers. It deploys a preview environment for other team members/teams to explore and tests the latest pushed code in a separate ci environment. In the ci environment, some additional variables are used.

name: garden
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
jobs:
  garden-preview:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: AWS auth
        uses: aws-actions/[email protected]
        with:
          aws-region: eu-central-1
          role-to-assume: ${{ secrets.AWS_ROLE_EKS_DEV }}
          role-session-name: GitHubActionsDev
          role-duration-seconds: 3600
      - name: AWS EKS Kubeconfig
        run: |
          # Add EKS cluster ${cluster_name} to ~/.kube/config
          # NOTE: The context name will be the EKS cluster ARN by default.
          # If your Garden configuration expects a different context name,
          # you can add override it using the `--alias` option.
          aws eks update-kubeconfig --name ${cluster_name} --region ${region}
      - uses: actions/[email protected]
      - name: Deploy preview env with Garden
        uses: garden-io/garden-action@v2
        with:
          command: deploy --env preview
          garden-auth-token: ${{ secrets.GARDEN_AUTH_TOKEN }}
  garden-ci:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: AWS auth
        uses: aws-actions/[email protected]
        with:
          aws-region: eu-central-1
          role-to-assume: ${{ secrets.AWS_ROLE_EKS_DEV }}
          role-session-name: GitHubActionsDev
          role-duration-seconds: 3600
      - name: AWS EKS Kubeconfig
        run: |
          # Add EKS cluster ${cluster_name} to ~/.kube/config
          # NOTE: The context name will be the EKS cluster ARN by default.
          # If your Garden configuration expects a different context name,
          # you can add override it using the `--alias` option.
          aws eks update-kubeconfig --name ${cluster_name} --region ${region}
      - uses: actions/[email protected]
      - name: Run tests in ci environment with Garden
        uses: garden-io/garden-action@v2
        with:
          command: >
            test --env ci
            --var postgres-database=postgres
            --var postgres-password=${{ secrets.PG_PASSWORD }}
          garden-auth-token: ${{ secrets.GARDEN_AUTH_TOKEN }}