The GitHub Super-Linter project is a fantastic way to lint all your file types with a single GitHub Actions Workflow. A great way to implement it everywhere is to use GHA's Reusable Workflows (see below).
My video walkthrough of this repository
- All the features of Super-Linter in a Reusable Workflow.
- Bonus: Optionally turn off non-DevOps linters (CSS, JS, HTML, etc.) when you want to ignore code (in my case it's to ignore sample code I stick in DevOps projects).
- Bonus: I added Job steps to correctly determine which branch to diff files with (in the case of having multiple release branches).
- Bonus: Lints only changed files on a PR, but lints all files on merge to main (or any release) branch.
⚠️ DO NOT call this reusable workflow directly, rather, use it as a template repository and fork it for your own reusable workflow. I might change this workflow at anytime, based on new GHA features or learnings, and your calling workflow might break.⚠️
- Fork this repository for you to customize your linters in a single location for your org/projects.
- Add a new workflow to all your other repositories and paste in this YAML to call the central-repos reusable workflow.
---
# template source: https://github.com/bretfisher/super-linter-workflow/blob/main/templates/call-super-linter.yaml
name: Lint Code Base
on:
# run anytime a PR is merged to main or a direct push to main
push:
branches: [main]
# run on any push to a PR branch
pull_request:
# cancel any previously-started, yet still active runs of this workflow on the same branch
concurrency:
group: ${{ github.ref }}-${{ github.workflow }}
cancel-in-progress: true
jobs:
call-super-linter:
name: Call Super-Linter
permissions:
contents: read # clone the repo to lint
statuses: write # read/write to repo custom statuses
### use Reusable Workflows to call my workflow remotely
### https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/reusing-workflows
### you can also call workflows from inside the same repo via file path
# FIXME: customize uri to point to your own reusable linter repository
uses: bretfisher/super-linter-workflow/.github/workflows/reusable-super-linter.yaml@main
### Optional settings examples
# with:
### For a DevOps-focused repository. Prevents some code-language linters from running
### defaults to false
# devops-only: false
### A regex to exclude files from linting
### defaults to empty
# filter-regex-exclude: html/.*Option 1: Use nektos/act to run an existing GitHub Action workflow on your local repository clone.
Option 2: Use Docker to run the Super-Linter image directly.
Option 3: Pick the linter you want to run from Super-Linter, then install it locally to run manually. If you have a linter config, be sure to point the linter to .github/linters/*, and also realize that super-linter has default linter configs, that may change the linters behavior inside super-linter, with templates listed here.
- bretfisher/github-actions-templates - Main repository
- (you are here) bretfisher/super-linter-workflow - Reusable linter workflow
- bretfisher/docker-build-workflow- Reusable docker build workflow
- bretfisher/docker-ci-automation - Step by step video and example of a Docker CI workflow
- My full list of container examples and tools