Review Apps on Clever Cloud

This GitHub Action does the following

1. A PR is opened: it deploys the branch to be reviewed on Clever Cloud and posts a comment with the review app link
2. The PR is updated: it deploys last pushed commit and post a comment to confirm the redeployment
3. The PR is closed (merged or not): it deletes app and post a comment to confirm the job has been done.

The action will consider both branches on the same repository, and pull requests from forks.

Requirements for this Action

• A Clever Cloud account
• An organisation in Clever Cloud
• Clever Cloud CLI installed in your machine to inject your tokens

Mandatory configuration

Add the following secrets to your repository, in Settings > Secrets and variables:

• CLEVER_SECRET and CLEVER_TOKEN: find them in your clever-tools.json after installing the CLI (example path on Mac: ~/.config/clever-cloud/clever-tools.json)
• ORGA_ID: the organisation in which your app is create
• GITHUB_TOKEN: implicit, to enable comments on the PR

For better security, we advise generating a specific CLEVER_SECRET and CLEVER_TOKEN for GitHub Actions. Follow these steps to do so:

1. Create a new user with a new email adress on Clever Cloud
2. Create a specific organization for deploying review apps
3. From your terminal, run clever logout and clever login right after
4. Log into the Console with your new user credetials
5. Get the generated CLEVER_SECRET and CLEVER_TOKEN and inject it into your repository secrets

Run clever login again and connect from your main account to set your personal tokens. Your GitHub Acction user's tokens won't be revoked and will be used only from GitHub.

Permissions

At job level, set the appropriate permissions to enable comments on PRs:

jobs:
  deploy:
    name: Deploy/redeploy review app
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
        issues: write
        pull-requests: write
        contents: read

How to Use this Action

1. In your .github/workflow/review-app.yml, define the event trigger for running the action:

on:
  pull_request_target:
    types: [opened, closed, synchronize, reopened]
    branches: [ main ]

2. Then, define the mandatory input:

- name: Create review app
        uses: CleverCloud/clever-cloud-review-app@latest
        env:
          CLEVER_SECRET: ${{ secrets.CLEVER_SECRET }}
          CLEVER_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CLEVER_TOKEN }}
          ORGA_ID: ${{ secrets.ORGA_ID }}
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        with:
          type: '<type-of-app>'

Values for --type

• docker: for Docker-based applications
• go: for Go applications
• gradle: for applications launched with gradle
• haskell: for haskell applications
• jar: for applications deployed as standalone jar files
• maven: for applications launched with maven
• meteor: for Meteor applications launched with Node.js
• node: for Node.js applications
• php: for PHP applications
• play1: for Play1 applications
• play2: for Play2 applications
• python: for python27 and python3 applications
• ruby: for ruby applications
• rust: for rust applications
• sbt: for applications launched with SBT
• static-apache: for static (HTML only) websites
• war: for applications deployed as war files

Inject secrets and variables

To inject your app secrets and environment variables on Clever Cloud, add them to your GitHub repository in Settings > Secrets and variables, then add them with an GH_ prefix in your workflow file. Finally, enable the injection with set-env: true:

name: Create review app
        uses: CleverCloud/clever-cloud-review-app@latest
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # To enable comments on the PR
          CLEVER_SECRET: ${{ secrets.CLEVER_SECRET }}
          CLEVER_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CLEVER_TOKEN }}
          ORGA_ID: ${{ secrets.ORGA_ID }}
          GH_CC_RUN_SUCCEEDED_HOOK: ${{ secrets. CC_RUN_SUCCEEDED_HOOK }} # This environment variable will be set on Clever Cloud
        with:
          type: '<type-of-app>'
          set-env: true # Enables the command to set en vars on Clever Cloud

Options

You can override default options by defining region, domain, name, and alias. Default values are:

• region=par (Paris)
• domain=<repo-name>-PR-#.cleverapps.io
• name=<repo-name>-PR-#>
• alias=<repo-name>-PR-#>

Values for --region

• par (Paris, Clever Cloud)
• rbx (Roubaix, OVHcloud)
• rbxhds (Roubaix, HDS servers, OVHcloud)
• scw (Paris, Scaleway DC5)
• jed (Jeddah, Oracle Cloud)
• mtl (Montreal, OVHcloud)
• sgp (Singapore, OVHcloud)
• syd (Sydney, OVHcloud)
• wsw (Warsaw, OVHcloud)