A GitHub Action to use the Ably Control API. You can use this action to:

• Create an Ably application.
• Add an API key to an application, with a list of capabilities.

The action has the following inputs:

• account-id (required); the Ably account ID, see these instructions how to obtain this.

• control-api-key (required); an Ably Control API key, see these instructions how to create one. This key needs the following permissions:

  • read:app
  • write:app
  • read:key
  • write:key

• app-name (optional); the name for the Ably app to create. Defaults to the repository name.

• create-key (optional); a boolean value indicating whether to create an API key for the new app. Defaults to 'true'.

• key-name (optional); the friendly name for the API key. Defaults to 'Generated API key'.

• key-capabilities (optional); a comma-separated list of capabilities to grant to the new key. Defaults to 'publish, subscribe'. These are the available capabilities:

  • channel-metadata,
  • history,
  • presence,
  • publish,
  • push-admin,
  • push-subscribe,
  • statistics,
  • subscribe

  For details of these capabilities see the Ably docs.

It is important to keep the account-id and control-api-key inputs secret, as they are used to authenticate with the Ably Control API. Put these values in GitHub secrets of your repository and read the secret values when configuring the inputs of this action (see the examples below).

• app-name; the name of the created Ably app.
• app-id; the ID of the created Ably app.^*
• api-key-name; the name of the created API key.
• api-key-id; the ID of the created API key.^*
• api-key-key; the key value of the created API key. ^*

(*) Output is marked as a secret, so it won't be visible in the GitHub workflow logs.

- name: Create Ably App
  id: ablyapp
  uses: ably-labs/ably-control-api-action@v0.1.6
  with:
    account-id: '${{ secrets.ABLY_ACCOUNT_ID }}'
    control-api-key: '${{ secrets.ABLY_CONTROL_API_KEY }}'
- name: Get the output
  run: |
    echo "App Name: ${{ steps.ablyapp.outputs.app-name }}"
    echo "App ID: ${{ steps.ablyapp.outputs.app-id }}"
    echo "API Key Name: ${{ steps.ablyapp.outputs.api-key-name }}"

- name: Create Ably App
  id: ablyapp
  uses: ably-labs/ably-control-api-action@v0.1.6
  with:
      account-id: '${{ secrets.ABLY_ACCOUNT_ID }}'
      control-api-key: '${{ secrets.ABLY_CONTROL_API_KEY }}'
      app-name: 'ably-control-api-key-all-inputs'
      create-key: 'true'
      key-name: 'all inputs api key'
      key-capabilities: 'publish, subscribe, presence, history'
- name: Get the output
  run: |
    echo "App Name: ${{ steps.ablyapp.outputs.app-name }}"
    echo "App ID: ${{ steps.ablyapp.outputs.app-id }}"
    echo "API Key Name: ${{ steps.ablyapp.outputs.api-key-name }}"

To learn more about Infrastructure as Code, GitHub workflows & actions read this blog post.

For more information about the Ably Control API please see the Ably docs.