🚀 Frenck's Github Action: yq

🚀 Frenck's GitHub Action for setting up yq.

About

A very simple and easy to use GitHub Action for setting up yq for use in your GitHub Actions.

All it does is installing it, so you can use it for reading or manipulating YAML files in your GitHub actions.

Usage

name: Example
on: [push, pull_request]
jobs:
  example:
    name: Example
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: 🏗 Set up yq
        uses: frenck/action-setup-yq@v1
      - name: 🚀 Use yq
        run: yq --version

Arguments

Input	Description	Usage
version	The yq version to install. The latest if omitted.	Optional

Outputs

Output	Description	Usage
version	The version of yq that was installed.	Optional

Real-world examples

The following repositories are using this GitHub Action, and thus provide you with some real-world uses of this GitHub Action.

• Home Assistant Community Add-ons

Are you using this GitHub Action? Feel free to open up a PR to add your configuration to this list 😍

Versions & Updating

You can specify which version of this GitHub Action your workflow should use. And even allowing for using the latest major or minor version.

For example; this will use release v1.1.1 of a GitHub Action:

- name: 🏗 Set up yq
  uses: frenck/[email protected]

While the following example, will use the v1.1.x minor release, for example if v1.1.2 is the latest releases (starting with v1.1), this will run v1.1.2:

- name: 🏗 Set up yq
  uses: frenck/[email protected]

As in the examples throughout the documentation, the following example is locked on major version, meaning any v1.x.x latest version will be used, as long as it is version 1.

- name: 🏗 Set up yq
  uses: frenck/action-setup-yq@v1

Automatically update using Dependabot

The advantage of locking against a more specific version, is that it prevents surprises if an issue or breaking changes were introduced in a newer release.

The disadvantage of being more specific, is that it requires you to keep things up to date. Fortunately, GitHub has a tool for that, called: Dependabot.

Dependabot can automatically open a pull request on your repository to update this Action for you. You can instantly see if the new version works (as the pull request shows the success or failure status) and you can decide to merge it in by hitting the merge button. Quick, easy and always up2date.

To enable Dependabot, create a file called .github/dependabot.yaml:

version: 2
updates:
  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
    directory: "/"
    schedule:
      interval: daily

Your all set! Dependabot will now check (and update) your GitHub actions every day. 🤩

Changelog & Releases

This repository keeps a change log using GitHub's releases functionality.

Releases are based on Semantic Versioning, and use the format of MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH. In a nutshell, the version will be incremented based on the following:

• MAJOR: Incompatible or major changes.
• MINOR: Backwards-compatible new features and enhancements.
• PATCH: Backwards-compatible bugfixes and package updates.

Contributing

This is an active open-source project. We are always open to people who want to use the code or contribute to it.

We've set up a separate document for our contribution guidelines.

Thank you for being involved! 😍

Authors & contributors

The original setup of this repository is by Franck Nijhof.

For a full list of all authors and contributors, check the contributor's page.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2021-2022 Franck Nijhof

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.