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Nightly Release

Nightly Release #848

#
# This GitHub action triggers a fresh set of Packer builds
# and publishes them to GitHub Releases under the `nightly` tag.
# Note that artifacts available via GitHub Releases are not codesigned or notarized.
# Failures are reported to slack.
#
name: Nightly Release
on:
schedule:
# Runs against the default branch every day at midnight
- cron: "0 0 * * *"
workflow_dispatch:
permissions:
contents: write
jobs:
# Build a fresh set of artifacts
build-artifacts:
uses: hashicorp/packer/.github/workflows/build.yml@main
github-release:
needs: build-artifacts
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@0ad4b8fadaa221de15dcec353f45205ec38ea70b # v4.1.4
- name: Download built artifacts
uses: actions/download-artifact@65a9edc5881444af0b9093a5e628f2fe47ea3b2e # v4.1.7
with:
path: out/
# Set BUILD_OUTPUT_LIST to out\<project>-<version>.<fileext>\*,out\...
# This is needed to attach the build artifacts to the GitHub Release
- name: Set BUILD_OUTPUT_LIST
run: |
echo "$(ls -xm1 out/)" > tmp.txt
cat tmp.txt | sed 's:.*:out/&/*:' > tmp2.txt
echo "BUILD_OUTPUT_LIST=$(cat tmp2.txt | tr '\n' ',' | perl -ple 'chop')" >> $GITHUB_ENV
rm -rf tmp.txt && rm -rf tmp2.txt
- name: Advance nightly tag
uses: actions/github-script@60a0d83039c74a4aee543508d2ffcb1c3799cdea # v7.0.1
with:
github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
script: |
try {
await github.rest.git.deleteRef({
owner: context.repo.owner,
repo: context.repo.repo,
ref: "tags/nightly"
})
} catch (e) {
console.log("Warning: The nightly tag doesn't exist yet, so there's nothing to do. Trace: " + e)
}
await github.rest.git.createRef({
owner: context.repo.owner,
repo: context.repo.repo,
ref: "refs/tags/nightly",
sha: context.sha
})
# This will create a new GitHub Release called `nightly`
# If a release with this name already exists, it will overwrite the existing data
- name: Create a nightly GitHub prerelease
id: create_prerelease
continue-on-error: true
uses: ncipollo/release-action@2c591bcc8ecdcd2db72b97d6147f871fcd833ba5 # v1.14.0
with:
name: nightly
artifacts: "${{ env.BUILD_OUTPUT_LIST }}"
tag: nightly
bodyFile: ".github/workflows/nightly-release-readme.md"
prerelease: true
allowUpdates: true
removeArtifacts: true
draft: false
token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
- name: Store GitHub Release ID
if: steps.create_prerelease.outcome == 'success'
run: |
echo "prerelease_id=${{ steps.create_prerelease.outputs.id }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
- name: Sleep before retry
id: sleep_before_retry
if: steps.create_prerelease.outcome == 'failure'
run : sleep 30m
shell: bash
- name: Retry failed nightly GitHub prerelease
id: create_prerelease_retry
if: steps.create_prerelease.outcome == 'failure'
uses: ncipollo/release-action@2c591bcc8ecdcd2db72b97d6147f871fcd833ba5 # v1.14.0
with:
name: nightly
artifacts: "${{ env.BUILD_OUTPUT_LIST }}"
tag: nightly
bodyFile: ".github/workflows/nightly-release-readme.md"
prerelease: true
allowUpdates: true
removeArtifacts: true
draft: false
token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
- name: Store Updated GitHub Release ID
if: steps.create_prerelease_retry.outcome == 'success'
run: |
echo "prerelease_id=${{ steps.create_prerelease_retry.outputs.id }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
- name: Publish nightly GitHub prerelease
uses: eregon/publish-release@01df127f5e9a3c26935118e22e738d95b59d10ce # v1.0.6
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
with:
release_id: ${{ env.prerelease_id }}
# Send a slack notification if either job defined above fails
slack-notify:
permissions:
contents: none
needs:
- build-artifacts
- github-release
if: always() && (needs.build-artifacts.result == 'failure' || needs.github-release.result == 'failure')
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Send slack notification on failure
uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@70cd7be8e40a46e8b0eced40b0de447bdb42f68e # v1.26.0
with:
payload: |
{
"text": ":alert: Packer Nightly Release *FAILED* :alert:",
"attachments": [
{
"color": "#C41E3A",
"blocks": [
{
"type": "section",
"text": {
"type": "mrkdwn",
"text": "Branch: `${{ github.ref_name }}`\nRef: ${{ github.sha }}\nWorkflow: ${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}"
}
}
]
}
]
}
env:
SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}
SLACK_WEBHOOK_TYPE: INCOMING_WEBHOOK