Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of the Azure Data Explorer Kusto CLI.

By default this action will install Kusto CLI version 11.3.1 which requires Dotnet 6. As of 2023-05-18, Dotnet 6 is installed by default on all of the latest GitHub-hosted runners, so you should not need to do any other manual setup.

The recommended approach is to use the philip-gai/kusto-script action with this action in order to setup and run queries and scripts against your Kusto cluster. Reference philip-gai/kusto-script for a full workflow example.

For older versions of the Kusto CLI that do not target Dotnet 6, you will have to make sure you setup the required version of Dotnet yourself. For example, for Kusto CLI version 6.0.1, you will need to add the following to your workflow:

    - uses: actions/[email protected]
      with:
        dotnet-version: "2.1.x"
    - uses: philip-gai/setup-kusto@main # Replace @main with a specific release tag
      with:
        kusto-version: "6.0.1"
        target-version: netcoreapp2.1

Once the Kusto CLI is installed, you can use the Kusto CLI directly in your workflow like so:

    - run: dotnet "${{ env.KUSTO_CLI_PATH }}" -execute:"#help"
      shell: bash