This is a Github Action which is used by the edgex-sync GitHub Workflows.

It is used to request a build of an EdgeX snap on Launchpad.

Example of using this action in a workflow:

  build-launchpad:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: test-snap
    steps:
      - name: Kick off Launchpad build
        uses: canonical/[email protected]
        with:
          snap_name: "edgexfoundry"
          architecture: amd64
          consumer_name: ${{ secrets.LP_CONSUMER_NAME }}
          access_token: ${{ secrets.LP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
          access_secret: ${{ secrets.LP_ACCESS_SECRET }}

Refer to action.yml to find the list of supported input arguments.

The three secrets used to connect to Launchpad, consumer_name, access_token and access_secret should be generated and stored as Github Secrets.

To regenerate the secrets, do the following:

• Run create-lp-credentals.py Python script locally.
• It will prompt you to log into Launchpad
• A credentials file will be generated with the secrets. Use the contents of that file (consumer_key, access_token, access_secret) to create the Github secrets. Consumer key should be used as the consumer name.

Note that to generate the credentials you need to be member of a Launchpad team with full access to the snap recipes, such as the Canonical EdgeX Team

CONSUMER_NAME="" ACCESS_TOKEN="" ACCESS_SECRET="" SNAP_NAME="" ARCH=amd64 UBUNTU_SERIES=focal python request-build.py