Create Envfile Github Action

RSAWEB/create_env@v1

About

A Github Action to create a .env file with Github Secrets, limiting them to only a specified environment and format

Usage

The Action takes the json passed in and creates a .env file limiting to <>_ and starting with [A-Z_]+=

name: Create envfile
on: [push]
jobs:
  create_env:
    runs-on: ubuntu-18.04
    steps:
    - name: Make envfile
      uses: RSAWEB/create_env@v1
      with:
        environment: STAGING
        secrets: ${{ toJson(secrets) }}
        file_name: .env

Inputs

In the example above, we use the following inputs:

Name	Description
environment	The name of the environment, all secrets for this environment are prefixed with this
secrets	This is the JSON that we will extract the secrets from
file_name (Optional)	Set the name of the output envfile. Defaults to .env

Assuming: environment is STAGING

secrets is

{
    "STAGING_URL": "URL=http://staging.unsanctioned.co.za",
    "STAGING_KEY": "Some random key",
    "PRODUCTION_URL": "URL=https://rsaweb.co.za"
}

the .env file that is created from the config above would contain:

URL=http://staging.unsanctioned.co.za