golangci-lint-runner

An runner for golangci-lint with an default (overrideable) config in an CI environment. (for github)

Features

• Comment, Approve or Reject Pull Requests
• Custom or multiple .golangci.yml files.
• Use as an github app with hooks, standalone (triggered by CI or manually) or .github actions

Github Actions Setup

Create a workflow file (e.g. .github/workflows/golangci-lint-runner.yml):

name: golangci-lint-runner
on: pull_request
jobs:
  golangci-lint-runner:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: linter
        uses: "docker://talononedevs/golangci-lint-runner:latest"
        with:
          entrypoint: /bin/golangci-lint-runner
          args: standalone
        env:
          APPROVE: false
          REQUEST_CHANGES: false
          GITHUB_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
          NO_ISSUES_TEXT: "No issues found"
          NO_CHANGES_TEXT: "No issues found"

Github App Setup

1. Create an Github App
2. Deploy golangci-lint-runner as app somewhere
3. set Homepage and Webhook url to your deployment
4. create a private key and pass it into golangci-lint-runner
5. create a webhook secret and pass it into golangci-lint-runner
6. Subscribe to events: Pull request
7. Permissions to set:

Contents: Read-Only
Pull-Request: Read & write
Metadata: Read-Only

Note: The code quality is not the best, this was done in a short period of time There is a lot to improve e.g. tests...