How to turn on Actions and run your first Action (Quickstart)

CI/CD Actions quickstart

Actions requires the repository owner be an organization, not an individual. If you need to transfer a personal repository to an organization, please refer to How to transfer ownership of a repo.

Workflow files

Actions are defined in workflow.yml files.

Your repository needs one or more workflow files to trigger an Action workflow run.

Note: you must put workflow files in .allspice/workflows/ folder

Creating your first workflow file

Create a file in your repo .allspice/workflows/hello-world.yml

Select repository→Add File→New File

Name the file .allspice/workflows/hello-world.yml

Copy the following example workflow into the web text editor:

name: Workflow-hello-world

on: 
  push:
  issues:
    # Trigger on issue open, close, or reopen
    types: [opened, closed, reopened]

jobs:
  Job-Hello-World:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: "Print Hello World 🔎" 
        run: echo "Hello World"    

After you have pasted the code block, click the “Commit Changes” button to commit the workflow file to the repository.

Trigger your first action

The example above should trigger an action as soon as you commit the files.

This workflow specifies that actions will trigger on push or issue open/close

To trigger this action again do one of the following:

• Push changes to the repo

• Open/New issue (This is the easiest to check)

• Close an issue

View Actions results

Visit the Actions tab and see the actions result

Click on the workflow to see the results

Click on your job step to see Hello World

If something goes wrong, let’s troubleshoot!