Github action to get the commit of latest active deployment

This action is based on the action created here, the only difference is that this action do not check against ref.name against the branch which is causing our Heroku deployments some issue.

Use this action to get the commit SHA of latest active deployment in a Github repository.

NOTE:

• ⚠️ The github action job need to explicitly add permission deployments: read to read the deployments.
• ⚠️ The action fetches latest 25 deployments and find the deployment which is ACTIVE and from the given environment and branch.

Inputs

• repo_owner: (required) Owner of the reepository.
• repo_name: (required) Name of the reepository.
• environment: (required) Deployment environment.
• branch: (optional) To find the latest deployment in specified branch. Default branch is main.

Outputs

• sha: Commit sha of latest ACTIVE deployment.

Usage

jobs:
  sample-job:
    name: Get the latest deployment sha
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      deployments: read
      contents: read
  steps:
    - name: Checkout
      id: checkout
      uses: actions/checkout@v3

    - name: Get sha of latest deployment in main branch
      id: latest-deployment-sha
      uses: ABI-Software/get-latest-deployment-sha@v1.0.0
      with:
        repo_owner: ABI-Sofeware
        repo_name: latest-deployment-sha
        environment: production
      env:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

    - name: Print latest deployment sha 
      id: output
      run: echo "${{ steps.latest-deployment-sha.outputs.sha }}"

License

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License

Acknowledgements

This script is forked from https://github.com/vrnithinkumar/latest-deployment-sha, thanks for the development.