install-op-cli

GitHub Action to install a specified version of the 1Password CLI.

🚀 Getting Started

Add the action to your workflow file.

name: Install 1Password CLI
uses: simonbs/install-op-cli@1.0.0
with:
  version-number: 2.13.1

Note that you must specify the version number of the CLI to install. You can find the complete list of versions in the release notes for the 1Password CLI.

After installing the 1Password CLI, you can invoke it in other steps as shown below.

name: Verify 1Password was Installed
run: op --version

Set the skip-if-installed input to true to skip installing the 1Password CLI if a version is already installed. Be aware that if skip-if-installed is true, the action will skip installing the CLI even if the installed version does not match the version specified in the action.

name: Install 1Password CLI
uses: simonbs/install-op-cli@1.0.0
with:
  version-number: 2.13.1
  skip-if-installed: true

⚡️ How does this work?

The action scrapes the list of available versions from the release notes for the 1Password CLI, finds the version specified in the action, downloads it, and installs it onto the runner.

🤨 But why?

1Password is a great place to store any secrets you need in your workflow as the secrets are stored securely and you can update them through any 1Password app. I have previously used 1Passwords load-secrets-action to load secrets from 1Password but I found that it was often easier to invoke the CLI directly, especially when copying files out of 1Password which can be done as shown below.

name: Install SSH Key
run: op read --out-file ~/.ssh/id_rsa "op://GitHub Actions/CI SSH Private Key/ci-ssh-key"

🙊 Limitations

The action only works on macOS runners as it only knows how to install .pkg files. It could be extended to support installing other files but as I have only needed to use the action on macOS runners, I have not added that.