Deprecated in favor of https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/blob/main/docs/snippets/generator-github.yaml

github token getter

A small application written in Golang built to ease the process of GitHub token retrieval

Prerequisite:

• Create GitHub application, download private PEM key
• Install GitHub application to your organization
• Pass the following data to the getter
• application id, installation id, location of the private key, name of k8s secret where it will save and update the access token

E.G:

gha_get_token -a 12345 -i 123123123 -k /tmp/gha/private-key.pem -n default -s gha-test-token

Flags:

• "-a", default: "" - "Github app ID."
• "-i", default: 0 - "Github app installation ID."
• "-k", default: "" - "Path to github app private key file."
• "-n", default: "default" - "K8S secret namespace."
• "-s", default: "" - "K8S secret name."
• "-t", default: 600 - "Key expiration time in seconds."
• "-u", default: "token", "K8S token user name.")