Discussion on: How To Validate Katacoda Scenarios with GitHub Actions

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To save everyone's time, here is the whole .github/workflows/actions.yml file

name: Validate Katacoda
on: push
jobs:
  build:
    name: Validate
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - id: checkout-code
      name: Checkout code
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - id: install-katacoda-cli
      name: Install Katacoda CLI
      run: |
        sudo npm i katacoda-cli --global
    - id: validate
      name: Validate Katacoda scenarios
      run: |
        katacoda validate:all --repo ${{ github.workspace }}
    - id: validate-markdown
      name: Validate Katacoda Markdown
      run: |
        sudo gem install mdl
        mdl ${{ github.workspace }}

Sualeh Fatehi • May 19 '20

Thanks for posting this. I should have mentioned that the step to install the Katacoda cli and to run the validation can be combined into a single step. They are kept separate for purposes of illustration in the article.

Krzysztof Pudłowski • Sep 25 '20

Nice tutorial.
But using it I have a lot of warnings

1.

Run sudo npm i katacoda-cli --global
npm WARN deprecated @hapi/joi@15.1.1: joi is leaving the @hapi organization and moving back to 'joi' (github.com/sideway/joi/issues/2411)
npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see github.com/request/request/issues/...
npm WARN deprecated request-promise@4.2.6: request-promise has been deprecated because it extends the now deprecated request package, see github.com/request/request/issues/...
npm WARN deprecated @hapi/bourne@1.3.2: This version has been deprecated and is no longer supported or maintained
npm WARN deprecated @hapi/hoek@8.5.1: This version has been deprecated and is no longer supported or maintained
npm WARN deprecated @hapi/address@2.1.4: This version has been deprecated and is no longer supported or maintained
npm WARN deprecated @hapi/topo@3.1.6: This version has been deprecated and is no longer supported or maintained
npm WARN deprecated urix@0.1.0: Please see github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated
npm WARN deprecated resolve-url@0.2.1: github.com/lydell/resolve-url#depr...
npm WARN deprecated har-validator@5.1.5: this library is no longer supported
/usr/local/bin/katacoda -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/katacoda-cli/bin/run