GitHub Actions gives you the flexibility to build an automated software development workflows. With GitHub Actions for Okteto Cloud you can create workflows to build, deploy and update your applications in Okteto Cloud. Follow this tutorial for a full preview environment configuration sample.
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You can use this action to create a preview environment in Okteto Cloud as part of your automated development workflow.
The Deploy Preview Environment action deploys your application based on the Okteto Pipeline manifest present in your repository. If you've not set up an Okteto Pipeline, the action will analyze the source code of your repository, looking for clues on how to deploy your application. You can read more about this here.
The application deployed by the Deploy Preview Environment action will be deployed and available under the "Previews" section on the Okteto Cloud dashboard, on Okteto Cloud.
Required The name of the Okteto preview environment to create.
Remember that the preview environment name must have your github ID as a suffix.
The length of time to wait for completion. Values should contain a corresponding time unit e.g. 1s, 2m, 3h. If not specified it will use 5m
.
The scope of the Okteto preview environment to create.
Available scopes are
personal
andglobal
(defaults topersonal
). To create a preview environment with global scope it is necessary to have administrator permissions. Global preview environments are accessible by all cluster members.
A list of variables to be used by the pipeline. If several variables are present, they should be separated by commas e.g. VAR1=VAL1,VAR2=VAL2,VAR3=VAL3.
Relative path within the repository to the manifest file (default to okteto-pipeline.yaml or .okteto/okteto-pipeline.yaml).
If the GITHUB_TOKEN
environment variable is set, the action will share the URL of the preview environment with the pull request that triggered the action.
This example runs the context action and then creates a preview environment.
# File: .github/workflows/workflow.yml
on: [push]
name: example
jobs:
devflow:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: okteto/context@latest
with:
token: ${{ secrets.OKTETO_TOKEN }}
- name: "Deploy the preview environment"
uses: okteto/deploy-preview@latest
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
with:
name: dev-previews-cindylopez
You can specify a custom certificate authority or a self-signed certificate by setting the OKTETO_CA_CERT
environment variable. When this variable is set, the action will install the certificate in the container, and then execute the action.
Use this option if you're using a private Certificate Authority or a self-signed certificate in your Okteto Enterprise instance. We recommend that you store the certificate as an encrypted secret, and that you define the environment variable for the entire job, instead of doing it on every step.
# File: .github/workflows/workflow.yml
on: [push]
name: example
jobs:
devflow:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
env:
OKTETO_CA_CERT: ${{ secrets.OKTETO_CA_CERT }}
steps:
- name: "Deploy the preview environment"
uses: okteto/deploy-preview@latest
env:
OKTETO_URL: https://cloud.okteto.com
OKTETO_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.OKTETO_TOKEN }}
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
with:
name: dev-previews-cindylopez
scope: global
timeout: 15m