publish-gae-action

This action allowed you publish application to Google App Engine.

Example

This project uses this action to published to Google App Engine.

BoardCAM.org

Usage

- name: Initialize Google Cloud SDK
  uses: zxyle/publish-gae-action@master
  with:
    service_account_email: ${{ secrets.GCP_SA_EMAIL }}
    service_account_key: ${{ secrets.GCP_SA_KEY }}
    project_id: ${{ secrets.PROJECT_ID }}
    # An optional variables parameter can be used
    gae_variables: ${{ secrets.GAE_VARIABLES }}

- name: Publish app to Google App Engine
  run: |
    # This client-secret.json is converted by GCP_SA_KEY.
    gcloud auth activate-service-account ${{ secrets.GCP_SA_EMAIL }} --key-file=client-secret.json
    gcloud config set project ${{ secrets.PROJECT_ID }}
    gcloud -q app deploy app.yaml --promote
    
    # Suppose you need a cron task.
    gcloud -q app deploy cron.yaml

Inputs

• service_account_email: (Required) The service account email which will be used for authentication.

• service_account_key: (Required) The service account key which will be used for authentication. This key should be created, encoded as a Base64 string (eg. cat my-key.json | base64 on macOS or Linux), and stored as a secret.

• project_id: (Required) The project_id is google cloud platform project id. See this page to get it.

• gae_variables: (Optional) App engine variables. This should be a json object encoded as a base64 string. This will be written into the app.yaml file at the root of your project. A sample variable file is shown here.

• gae_config_path: (Optional) Path to the app.yml to use (./my/neseted/package/app.yml). Defaults to ./app.yml.

Note

Use 272.0.0 Google Cloud SDK by default on GitHub-hosted runners. If you need latest version, please refer to this action. But in most cases, this is enough.

Possible Errors

WARNING: You do not appear to have access to project [project-id] or it does not exist.

You must activate the Cloud Resource Manager API, to be fix this issue. Just replace YOUR_PROJECT_ID_HERE of the link bellow and click ENABLE.

https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com/overview?project=YOUR_PROJECT_ID_HERE

Sample variable file

{
  "beta_settings": {
    "cloud_sql_instances": "my_sql_instance"
  },
  "env_variables": {
    "DB_CONNECTION": "mysql",
    "DB_HOST": "127.0.0.1",
    "DB_PORT": 3306,
    "DB_USER": "mydbuser",
    "DB_DATABASE": "my_database",
    "DB_PASSWORD": "password",
    "DB_SOCKET": "/cloudsql/mys_sql_instance"
  }
}

On a Mac you can encode this into a base64 string by running the following command;

base64 -i myvariables.json

License

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License