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Railsware Github Actions

A collection of GitHub actions used at Railsware

• fetch-task-defintion - fetch a task definition from AWS Elastic Container Service
• read-from-ssm-param-store - retrieve information about parameters in a specific hierarchy
• run-ecs-task - run a one-off task on AWS Elastic Container Service

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running action on local machine

• yarn run_action --action name --param-1 value1 --param-2 value2 --param-3 value
  • name action name to run
  • param-x - param like they specified in action.yml
• i.e when using credential profiles it could be like following:

  ACTIONS_RUNNER_DEBUG=true AWS_SDK_LOAD_CONFIG=1 AWS_PROFILE=my-work-profile AWS_REGION=us-east-1 yarn run_action \
    --action run-ecs-task \
    --cluster my-cluster \
    --service my-service \
    --container my-container \
    --command 'echo "Hello World"' \
    --task-definition 'my_task_definition_arn' \
    --wait-for-completion true \
    --show-raw-output false

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