Creating starter workflows for your organization

Overview

Los flujos de trabajo iniciales permiten que toda persona en tu organización que tenga permiso para crear flujos de trabajo lo haga de forma más fácil y rápida. Cuando creas un flujo de trabajo nuevo, puedes elegir un flujo de trabajo inicial y algo o todo el trabajo de escribir dicho flujo de trabajo se hará automáticamente. Puedes utilizar flujos de trabajo iniciales como un primer paso para crear un flujo de trabajo personalizado o utilizarlos tal cual. Esto no solo ahorra tiempo, sino que promueve la consistencia y las mejores prácticas a lo largo de tu organización.

GitHub proporciona flujos de trabajo de inicio listos para usar para las siguientes categorías generales:

• Implementación (CD) . Para más información, vea "Acerca de la implementación continua".
• Integración continua (CI) . Para más información, vea "Acerca de la integración continua".
• Automatización. Los flujos de trabajo de inicio de automatización ofrecen soluciones para automatizar flujos de trabajo, como evaluar las solicitudes de incorporación de cambios y aplicar una etiqueta basada en las rutas modificadas en la solicitud de incorporación de cambios, o bien saludar a los usuarios que colaboran por primera vez en el repositorio.

Creating a starter workflow

Starter workflows can be created by users with write access to the organization's .github repository. These can then be used by organization members who have permission to create workflows.

This procedure demonstrates how to create a starter workflow and metadata file. The metadata file describes how the starter workflows will be presented to users when they are creating a new workflow.

1. If it doesn't already exist, create a new public repository named .github in your organization.

2. Create a directory named workflow-templates.

3. Create your new workflow file inside the workflow-templates directory.

   If you need to refer to a repository's default branch, you can use the $default-branch placeholder. When a workflow is created the placeholder will be automatically replaced with the name of the repository's default branch.

   For example, this file named octo-organization-ci.yml demonstrates a basic workflow.

   name: Octo Organization CI
   
   on:
     push:
       branches: [ $default-branch ]
     pull_request:
       branches: [ $default-branch ]
   
   jobs:
     build:
       runs-on: ubuntu-latest
   
       steps:
         - uses: actions/checkout@v2
   
         - name: Run a one-line script
           run: echo Hello from Octo Organization
   

4. Create a metadata file inside the workflow-templates directory. The metadata file must have the same name as the workflow file, but instead of the .yml extension, it must be appended with .properties.json. For example, this file named octo-organization-ci.properties.json contains the metadata for a workflow file named octo-organization-ci.yml:

   {
       "name": "Octo Organization Workflow",
       "description": "Octo Organization CI starter workflow.",
       "iconName": "example-icon",
       "categories": [
           "Go"
       ],
       "filePatterns": [
           "package.json$",
           "^Dockerfile",
           ".*\\.md$"
       ]
   }
   

   • name - Required. The name of the workflow. This is displayed in the list of available workflows.
   • description - Required. The description of the workflow. This is displayed in the list of available workflows.
   • iconName - Optional. Specifies an icon for the workflow that's displayed in the list of workflows. The iconName must be the name of an SVG file, without the file name extension, stored in the workflow-templates directory. For example, an SVG file named example-icon.svg is referenced as example-icon.
   • categories - Optional. Defines the language category of the workflow. When a user views the available starter workflows for a repository, the workflows that match the identified language for the project are featured more prominently. For information on the available language categories, see https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/languages.yml.
   • filePatterns - Optional. Allows the workflow to be used if the user's repository has a file in its root directory that matches a defined regular expression.

To add another starter workflow, add your files to the same workflow-templates directory. For example:

Next steps

To continue learning about GitHub Actions, see "Using starter workflows."