How Fastly manages its software with GitHub Actions

• compute-actions

  1 37 7.0 JavaScript

  GitHub Actions for building on Fastly Compute.

  

Actions are a collection of steps that can be reused. You can create your own custom actions but it’s more common to use third-party community actions, for example, Fastly provides actions for building and deploying to Compute@Edge. To use an action, the workflow job needs a step that includes the jobs..steps[*].uses key set to an appropriate configuration path.

• checkout

  62 5,242 7.6 TypeScript

  Action for checking out a repo

  

A common example is using actions/checkout, which lets a job access the project code inside the repository running the workflow.

• SurveyJS

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• cache

  40 4,250 7.4 TypeScript

  Cache dependencies and build outputs in GitHub Actions

  

actions/cache: cache dependencies and build outputs.

• setup-go

  4 1,304 6.3 TypeScript

  Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of Go

  

actions/setup-go: install and configure a specific version of Go.

• setup-node

  24 3,591 7.5 TypeScript

  Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of node.js

  

Well, let’s consider the scenario we had with the DevHub. We were using the third-party action setup-node to install and configure the Node.js programming language. This action lets you specify the node version to install but it can’t be a dynamically acquired value. You either have to hardcode it or interpolate the value.

• toolchain

  4 548 0.0 TypeScript

  Discontinued 🛠️ GitHub Action for `rustup` commands

  

actions-rs/toolchain: install and configure a specific version of Rust.

• Newman

  241 6,718 7.5 JavaScript

  Newman is a command-line collection runner for Postman

  

Only publish API updates to Postman if it’s a scheduled production event.

• InfluxDB

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• nvm

  313 75,557 7.8 Shell

  Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions

  

In the DevHub we have a .nvmrc file that indicates the supported node version. We want to read the version contained in this file and pass that to the action. There are a few ways to achieve this but the simplest one was to store the value in an environment variable and interpolate the value in the action’s node-version input field using the env context object.

• upload-artifact

  24 2,886 8.2 TypeScript
  

Artifacts: actions/upload-artifact, actions/download-artifact.

• download-artifact

  8 1,272 8.2 TypeScript
  

Artifacts: actions/upload-artifact, actions/download-artifact.

• Jenkins

  150 22,384 9.9 Java

  Jenkins automation server

  

There are many CI/CD solutions available, such as Jenkins and Travis CI (both of which Fastly has used in the past) but here I’m going to be talking about GitHub Actions, which has proven to be a powerful and flexible tool that has enabled us to simplify our content publishing pipeline.

• Gatsby

  356 55,016 9.3 JavaScript

  The best React-based framework with performance, scalability and security built in.

  

The DevHub is a static website generated using Gatsby, and it provides Fastly's developer community with information on, amongst other things

• node

  923 103,634 9.9 JavaScript

  Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨

  

Well, let’s consider the scenario we had with the DevHub. We were using the third-party action setup-node to install and configure the Node.js programming language. This action lets you specify the node version to install but it can’t be a dynamically acquired value. You either have to hardcode it or interpolate the value.

• starter-workflows

  260 8,421 8.3 TypeScript

  Accelerating new GitHub Actions workflows

  

There are many CI/CD solutions available, such as Jenkins and Travis CI (both of which Fastly has used in the past) but here I’m going to be talking about GitHub Actions, which has proven to be a powerful and flexible tool that has enabled us to simplify our content publishing pipeline.

• Puts Debuggerer

  3,150 91 5.5 Ruby

  Ruby library for improved puts debugging, automatically displaying bonus useful information such as source line number and source code.

The GitHub Actions platform is managed by GitHub (the largest online collaboration platform where developers and companies build and maintain their software). This means GitHub Actions exist alongside where our code lives, and this can enable better integration with our internal repositories compared to external solutions such as Jenkins/Travis.

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