Trigger Buildkite Pipeline GitHub Action

A GitHub Action for triggering a build on a Buildkite pipeline.

Features

• Creates builds in Buildkite pipelines, setting commit, branch, message.
• Saves the build JSON response to ${HOME}/${GITHUB_ACTION}.json for downstream actions.

Usage

Create a Buildkite API Access Token with write_builds scope, and save it to your GitHub repository’s Settings → Secrets. Then you can configure your Actions workflow with the details of the pipeline to be triggered, and the settings for the build.

For example, the following workflow creates a new Buildkite build on every commit:

workflow "Trigger a Buildkite Build" {
  on = "push"
  resolves = ["Build"]
}

action "Build" {
  uses = "buildkite/[email protected]"
  secrets = ["BUILDKITE_API_ACCESS_TOKEN"]
  env = {
    PIPELINE = "my-org/my-deploy-pipeline"
    COMMIT = "HEAD"
    BRANCH = "master"
    MESSAGE = ":github: Triggered from a GitHub Action"
  }
}

Configuration Options

The following environment variable options can be configured:

Env var	Description	Default
PIPELINE	The pipline to create a build on, in the format <org-slug>/<pipeline-slug>
COMMIT	The commit SHA of the build. Optional.	$GITHUB_SHA
BRANCH	The branch of the build. Optional.	$GITHUB_REF
MESSAGE	The message for the build. Optional.
BUILD_ENV_VARS	Additional environment variables to set on the build, in JSON format. e.g. {"FOO": "bar"}. Optional.

Development

To run the test workflow, you use act which will run it just as it does on GitHub:

act

Contributing

• Fork this repository
• Create a new branch for your work
• Push up any changes to your branch, and open a pull request. Don't feel it needs to be perfect — incomplete work is totally fine. We'd love to help get it ready for merging.

Releasing

• Create a new GitHub release. The version numbers in the readme will be automatically updated.

Roadmap

• Add a WAIT option for waiting for the Buildkite build to finish.
• Support other properties available in the Buildkite Builds REST API, such as environment variables and meta-data.

Contributions welcome! ❤️