`release-tektoncd-task`

GitHub Action to release a Tekton Task.

Usage

The following snippet shows the usage example, please note the attributes permissions.contents and permissions.packages required to allow the action upload the release data.

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - "*"

jobs:
  release:
    permissions:
      # allows the action to create a new release
      contents: write
      # allows the action to upload relese artifacts
      packages: write
    steps:
      - uses: openshift-pipelines/release-tektoncd-task@main
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

This action is meant to run when a new repository release is created, the action expects to find a draft release in order to upload the artifacts and generate the release notes accordingly.

Make sure the action only runs when a tag is issued, as the example above shows, and a draft release is already created for the tag. After the action is executed you can publish the release.

The environment variable GITHUB_TOKEN shares the authorization needed to upload the release artifacts, please check the repository settings to allow payload upload accordingly.

Inputs

Input	Required	Default	Description
`bundle_tag_suffix`	`false`	`-bundle`	Tekton Task-Bundle OCI container-image tag suffix
`cli_version`	`false`	`latest`	Tekton CLI (`tkn`) version
`helm_version`	`false`	`latest`	Helm CLI (`helm`) version
`crane_version`	`false`	`latest`	`go-containerregistry/crane` version

Release Contents

The action expects to find a Chart.yaml file in the root of the repository, from this file it extracts the Chart name and version. The version must match the current Git tag, informed via GITHUB_REF_NAME environment variable, set during action execution by default.

Artifacts

The release artifacts are described below, the GitHub organization is actor and the repository is example containing a Chart version 0.0.1, please consider:

Artifact Name	Description
`example-0.0.1.yaml`	Tekton Task resource
`oci://ghcr.io/actor/example:0.0.1-bundle`	Tekton Task-Bundle OCI container-image
`example-0.0.1.tgz`	Helm-Chart tarball
`oci://ghcr.io/actor/example:0.0.1`	Helm-Chart OCI container-image

The Tekton Task-Bundle container-image receives the input bundle_tag_suffix to compose the final tag.

Release Notes

Release note are generated automatically, with the respective commands to copy-and-paste to rollout the release artifacts.