A Github action to enable Clojure projects to invoke the tools.deps CLI

The primary goal is to support CI tests.

The action is based on a Docker container that has Clojure installed over adoptopenjdk/openjdk8:alpine-slim

Note: Since the action is not interactive, it invokes the CLI via clojure rather than clj. This distinction should usually be unimportant and is mentioned here for completeness.

Optional: The alias or concatenated aliases (eg :ci, :mem:test, ...)

Default: :test

Optional: Any java opts (eg -Xmx512m)

Default: none are set

Optional: A GitHub secret that has the The SSH key needed to access code from other private repositories (eg ${{ secrets.SSH_PRIVATE_KEY }})

Default: no SSH agent is started or key used

When running this action to you might need to fetch dependencies from your other private repositories.

GitHub Actions only have access to the repository they run for. To access additional private repositories you need to provide an SSH key with sufficient access privileges.

Please note that there are some other actions on the GitHub marketplace that enable setting up an SSH agent. Our experience is that the mechanisms to support SSH agent interplay between actions is complex and complexity brings risks. We think that it is more straightforward and secure to have this action support the feature within its own scope. We will continue to review this choice as the Docker options improve and the GitHub environment matures.

For security purposes, we do not expose the SSH agent outside of this action.

1. Create an SSH key with sufficient access privileges. For security reasons, don't use your personal SSH key but set up a dedicated one for use in GitHub Actions. See the Github documentation for more support.
2. Make sure you don't have a passphrase set on the private key.
3. In your repository, go to the Settings > Secrets menu and create a new secret. In this example, we'll call it SSH_PRIVATE_KEY. Put the contents of the private SSH key file into the contents field.
4. This key must start with -----BEGIN ... PRIVATE KEY-----, consist of many lines and ends with -----END ... PRIVATE KEY-----.

uses: actions/tools.deps-builder@v1

uses: actions/tools.deps-builder@v1
with:
  ssh-key: ${{ secrets.SSH_PRIVATE_KEY }}

uses: actions/tools.deps-builder@v1
with:
  alias: :xyz

uses: actions/tools.deps-builder@v1
with:
  java-opts: -Xmx512m -Xms128m

uses: actions/tools.deps-builder@v1
with:
  alias: :abc
  java-opts: -Xmx512m -Xms128m

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License