Our GitHub Action workflow needs to call the GitHub API to create a GitHub repository and push code to the repository. In order to call the GitHub API it needs the GitHub Personal Access Token.
Click on your GitHub Profile (on the upper right corner), then select settings on the drop down menu, then select Developer settings on the lower right corner. Now you are on the Developers Setting page, select Fine-grained tokens then click on Generate a personal access token.
Provide a Token name, set an Expiration date, for Repository access select All Repositories.
For Permissions you need to set Read and Write access for
- Administration
- Contents
- Secrets
- Workflows Please save you GitHub Personal Access Token.
On your GitHub repository go to Settings then Secrets and variables, then click Actions
In your GitHub repository containing the GitHub Action, click on the Actions tab, then click on Clock on Run workflow, then fill in all the fields and then click Run workflow.
Congrats, your Spring Boot application has been created.