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Saravanan Gnanaguru
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GitHub Actions workflow for Go Continuous Integration

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Introduction

  • I've created a GitHub action that performs the Go continuous integration process on the Go source code repository
  • Interested Go developers and DevOps Engineers can use this workflow to create the Continuous Integration for their GitHub repo
  • Created this workflow for the submission of actionshackathon21

Workflow Details

Go Continuous Integration workflow

  • The workflow we created will be doing the Continuous Integration process on this repository.
  • Whenever there is a code check-in happens on main branch, then CI workflow will be triggered
  • Below are the details of this workflow
    • Code checkout into the workspace
    • Install Go and runs the Go linting process for doing code review
    • Get the build dependencies
    • Builds the code
    • Runs the Unit test, if it is success it moves to next stage
    • Docker image is created for the code and pushed into docker hub registry
    • Finally workflow posts the status of each step to a slack channel
  • Here is the link to the GitHub actions workflow Yaml

Marketplace GitHub Actions used in this Workflow

I've leveraged existing actions available from GitHub Actions Marketplace

  • actions/checkout@v2 - Action that is used to checkout code.
  • reviewdog/action-golangci-lint@v2 - Go installation and linting action.
  • mr-smithers-excellent/docker-build-push@v5 - Docker build and push action.
  • act10ns/slack@v1 - Slack GitHub Action Integration action

Submission Category

  • DIY Deployments

Yaml File and Link to Code

  • GitHub Actions Workflow Yaml
name: Go_CI_Workflow

on:
  push:
    branches: [ main ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ main ]

jobs:

  build:
    name: Build
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Check out code to Build
      uses: actions/checkout@v2

    - name: Install Go and Run Code Linting
      id: Install-Go
      uses: reviewdog/action-golangci-lint@v2

    - name: Get dependencies to Build
      id: Get-dependencies-to-Build
      run: |
        go get -v -t -d ./...
        if [ -f Gopkg.toml ]; then
            curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/golang/dep/master/install.sh | sh
            dep ensure
        fi

    - name: Build Code
      id: Build-Code
      run: |
        go build -v .

    - name: Unit Test
      id: Unit-Test-Run
      run: |
        go test

    - name: Build & push Docker image
      id: Build-and-Push-Docker-Image
      uses: mr-smithers-excellent/docker-build-push@v5
      with:
        image: gsdockit/goapiauth
        tags: latest
        registry: docker.io
        dockerfile: Dockerfile
        username: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }}
        password: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_PASSWORD }}

    - name: Posting Action Workflow updates to Slack
      uses: act10ns/slack@v1
      with: 
        status: ${{ job.status }}
        steps: ${{ toJson(steps) }}
        channel: '#github-updates'
      if: always()
    env:
      SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}
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  • The full source code can be accessible in this GitHub repo

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Build Status

GO CI workflow

Introduction

  • Created a GitHub Actions workflow for the submission of Dev.to actionshackathon21
  • This action performs the Go continuous integration process on the Go source code repository
  • Interested Go developers and DevOps Engineers can use this workflow to create the Continuous Integration for their GitHub repo

My Workflow

Go Continuous Integration workflow

  • The workflow we created will be doing the Continuous Integration process on this repository.
  • Whenever there is a code check-in happens on main branch, then CI workflow will be triggered
  • Below are the details of this workflow
    • Code checkout into the workspace
    • Install Go and runs the Go linting process…

GitHub Action Workflow Run Output

  • Here is how it runs the workflow and it can be viewable from the Actions tab Go CI Run

Additional Info

Developer - Saravanan G (chefgs)


Other details that might be helpful to users starting to write GitHub Actions

How to Add GitHub Actions workflow

  • Our workflow gets created in .github/workflows as an .yaml file

Method 1:

  • Step 1: We can find Actions tab on the repo
  • Step 2: Click on the tab and choose New Workflow
  • Step 3: Choose workflow from the pre-defined template
  • Step 4: Edit the workflow yaml according to the required stages

or

Method 2:

Enjoy creating the GitHub Workflow


How to Integrate Slack with GitHub Actions Workflow

Here is the list of steps to integrate slack with github actions,

  • Add github app to the slack channel
  • Add incoming webhook app and pick webhook url and keep it
  • Run the below command in slack channel to subscribe to repo updates. (while adding, it asks for auth with github and we choose repo)
/github subscribe user/repo
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  • Add incoming webhook URL as secret in the specific repo we want to get updates
  • Add the below code at the end of Action workflow to get the job updates in slack
  - name: Posting Action Workflow updates to Slack
      uses: act10ns/slack@v1
      with: 
        status: ${{ job.status }}
        steps: ${{ toJson(steps) }}
        channel: '#github-actions-updates'
      if: always()
    env:
      SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}
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  • Each steps in workflow should have id: step-name to get the status of the step in Slack update

Now let's see the details about the code and it's functionality...

Go Source Code Details

Code Objective

  • We will be creating a REST API that listens on localhost port 1357 and has the API versioning with a query string parameter.
  • Sample URL format we are planning to create, http://localhost:1357/api/v1/PersonId/Id456

Function main

Add the below code function main()

Adding API Versioning and Basic authentication

  // Define gin router
  router := gin.Default()

  // Create Sub Router for customized API version and basic auth
  subRouterAuthenticated := router.Group("/api/v1/PersonId", gin.BasicAuth(gin.Accounts{
    "basic_auth_user": "userpass",
  }))
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Passing Query String Parameters

  subRouterAuthenticated.GET("/:IdValue", GetMethod)
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REST API Listening on Port

  listenPort := "1357"
  // Listen and Server on the LocalHost:Port
  router.Run(":"+listenPort)
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Get Method

  • Define a GetMethod function and add the following code
  • It fetches and prints the Person IdValue from the query string parameter passed in the API URL
func GetMethod(c *gin.Context) {
  fmt.Println("\n'GetMethod' called")
  IdValue := c.Params.ByName("IdValue")
  message := "GetMethod Called With Param: " + IdValue
  c.JSON(http.StatusOK, message)

  // Print the Request Payload in console
  ReqPayload := make([]byte, 1024)
  ReqPayload, err := c.GetRawData()
  if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
        return
  }
  fmt.Println("Request Payload Data: ", string(ReqPayload))
}
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Go REST API Unit testing

  • Go testing module can be used for creating unit testing code for Go source
  • Go testing module code has been found in api_authtest.go
  • Run the command go test to run the tests

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