Release It - Containerized

This project is a containerized version of release-it. The purpose of this project is to enable release-it to run in any environment as a standardized container without the need for a Node environment.

This project is simply a wrapper to run as containerization of release-it and execute release-it directly, providing the environment and setup around to run it.

Note

This project is released using release-it and with this containerized version including pre-releases.

Usage

As this is a containerized solution, it can be used anywhere!

The most important required is that the project has a valid configuration acceptable by release-it.

Inputs

The containerized tool accepts the following inputs.

Environmental Variable	Description	Required
GIT_DIRECTORY	Directory path to make it safe to run git changes	false
GIT_EMAIL	The Git email that will be identified when running release-it	false
GIT_REPOSITORY	The Git repository of the project to run release-it	false
GIT_USERNAME	The Git username that will be identified when running release-it	false
GPG_PRIVATE_KEY	The GPG Private Key	false
GPG_PRIVATE_KEY_ID	The GPG Private Key ID	false
RELEASE_IT_PLUGINS	List of comma separated release plugins to run	false
SSH_PASSPHRASE	SSH Passphrase associated to the SSH Private Key	false
SSH_PRIVATE_KEY	The SSH Private key associated to the GIT account running release-it	false

As the tool runs release-it, you can also pass additional environmental variables, such as GITHUB_TOKEN and GITLAB_TOKEN, for GitHub and GitLab, respectively.

Container - Docker

When running from the project, as the directory is passed as a volume to the container, it will inherit the Git configuration set in the project. However, if needed, this configuration can be overridden and set differently.

For example running locally.

docker run \
    -e GITHUB_TOKEN="***" \
    -e GIT_EMAIL="juancarlosjr97@gmail.com" \
    -e GIT_REPOSITORY="git@github.com:juancarlosjr97/release-it-containerized.git" \
    -e GIT_USERNAME="Juan Carlos Blanco Delgado" \
    -e GPG_PRIVATE_KEY="$(cat gpg_private_key.pgp)" \
    -e GPG_PRIVATE_KEY_ID="***" \
    -e RELEASE_IT_PLUGINS="@release-it/conventional-changelog@latest,@release-it/bumper@latest" \
    -e SSH_PASSPHRASE="***" \
    -e SSH_PRIVATE_KEY="$(cat ssh_private_key)" \
    -v $(pwd):/app \
    ghcr.io/juancarlosjr97/release-it-containerized \
    release-it --ci

The last line accepts any value, and will be accept any value from release-it CLI configuration. For example, it can execute --dry-run.

GitHub Action

The project provides a GitHub Action to used within a workflow.

Input Variables

Field	Description	Required	Default
command	Command to execute release-it	false	""
git_email	Git email to run release-it	false	${{ github.actor }}
git_username	Git username to run release-it	false	${{ github.actor }}@users.noreply.github.com
github_token	Github Token to run release-it	false	${{ github.token }}
gpg_private_key	GPG Private Key	false	""
gpg_private_key_id	GPG Private Key ID	false	""
image_tag	Image tag used to pass specific version of the action	false	latest
plugins_list	List of Plugins to run with release-it as comma separated	false	""
ssh_passphrase	SSH Passphrase	false	""
ssh_private_key	SSH Private Key	false	""
version	Release It version	false	latest

The GitHub Action exclusively operates within a CI environment, utilizing the --ci option, ensuring a fully automated process devoid of prompts in a non-interactive mode.

Workflow

Add this step in your workflow file

- name: Running release-it using GitHub Action
    uses: juancarlosjr97/release-it-containerized:0.2.0
    with:
        git_email: ${{ vars.GIT_EMAIL }}
        git_username: ${{ vars.GIT_USERNAME }}
        github_token: ${{ secrets.PROJECT_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        gpg_private_key: ${{ secrets.GPG_PRIVATE_KEY }}
        gpg_private_key_id: ${{ secrets.GPG_PRIVATE_KEY_ID }}
        plugins_list: "@release-it/conventional-changelog@latest,@release-it/bumper@latest"
        ssh_passphrase: ${{ secrets.SSH_PASSPHRASE }}
        ssh_private_key: ${{ secrets.SSH_PRIVATE_KEY }}

Example

name: Release
on:
  push:
    branches: ["main"]

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

- name: Running release-it using GitHub Action
    uses: juancarlosjr97/release-it-containerized:0.2.0
    with:
        git_email: ${{ vars.GIT_EMAIL }}
        git_username: ${{ vars.GIT_USERNAME }}
        github_token: ${{ secrets.PROJECT_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        gpg_private_key: ${{ secrets.GPG_PRIVATE_KEY }}
        gpg_private_key_id: ${{ secrets.GPG_PRIVATE_KEY_ID }}
        plugins_list: "@release-it/conventional-changelog@latest,@release-it/bumper@latest"
        ssh_passphrase: ${{ secrets.SSH_PASSPHRASE }}
        ssh_private_key: ${{ secrets.SSH_PRIVATE_KEY }}

Note

GitHub Actions mandates running containers as root to align with GitHub's requirements. Consequently, when executing a GitHub Action involving containerization, it runs with root privileges. For additional details, refer the official documentation from GitHub here.

Acknowledgment

This project is only possible due to the existence of release-it and all its contributors for the great work.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file.

Support Information

• release-it
• LICENSE