validate_dashboards_format.yml

name: Validate dashboard templates and metadata

# Controls when the workflow will run
on:
  # Triggers the workflow on push or pull request events but only for the "main" branch
  push:
    branches: [ "master" ]
    paths: ["dashboards/**"]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ "master" ]
    paths: ["dashboards/**"]

  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
  workflow_dispatch:

# A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
jobs:
  # This workflow contains a single job called "build"
  build:
    # The type of runner that the job will run on
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    # Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job
    steps:
      # Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      
      - name: Get changed files
        id: changed-files
        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v41

      - name: checkout repo content
        uses: actions/checkout@v2 # checkout the repository content to github runner.
        
      - name: setup python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
        with:
          python-version: 3.8 #install the python needed
          
      - name: Install dependencies
        run: |
          pip3 install pyyaml
          pip install --upgrade google-cloud-monitoring
            
      - name: execute py script # run file
        run: |
        
         echo "running validation on following files ${{ steps.changed-files.outputs.added_files }}"
         python3 scripts/dashboard/validate_dashboards_format.py ${{ steps.changed-files.outputs.added_files }}