ci: pin actions to commit SHAs and deploy the commit that was scanned - #13
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Two of the three follow-ups from #3. Every action is pinned to a commit SHA with the version in a trailing comment. aquasecurity/trivy-action was the worst of them — a mutable @master reference in the step that gates deploys, so an upstream change reached the security gate with no review; it moves to the v0.36.0 release commit. Pinning trades a supply-chain risk for a staleness risk, since a pinned action never picks up its own security fixes, so a weekly Dependabot github-actions schedule comes with it to keep the pins current. The deploy script pulled the branch tip rather than the commit trivy-scan had just approved, so anything merged between the scan and the deploy shipped unscanned. It now fetches and resets to the merge commit for the run, falling back to github.sha. The commit is verified to exist after the fetch and the script aborts before anything is overwritten if it does not. This also makes a deploy reproducible: a re-run ships the same code rather than whatever has landed since. The third item, ignore-unfixed, is deliberately left alone — see #3. Turning it off would fail deploys on vulnerabilities with no available patch, which is a policy decision rather than a defect, and one worth making consciously. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan includes up to 3 reviews per rolling hour; 1 remains after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request configures Dependabot for GitHub Actions updates, pins workflow actions to commit SHAs, and changes deployment to fetch, verify, and reset to the pull request merge commit or workflow SHA. ChangesCI and deployment hardening
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The workflows now use immutable action references and deploy the commit that was scanned, improving supply-chain integrity and deployment reproducibility. Merge is reasonable with owner awareness that the Java workflows still pin an outdated setup-java v4 revision and should receive a follow-up update. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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DeployWorkflow->>GitRepository: Fetch branch and resolve target commit
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75-80: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winStop the remote script after a deployment command fails.
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script_stop: trueforappleboy/ssh-action, or addset -eat the start of the remote script. Its default isfalse. A failedgit reset --hard "$DEPLOY_SHA"can otherwise leave the previous worktree active while deployment continues.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In @.github/workflows/build-lint-test.yml:
- Around line 49-50: Update the actions/setup-java reference to the v5 pinned
revision in all affected sites: .github/workflows/build-lint-test.yml lines
49-50 and 69-70, .github/workflows/deploy.yml lines 28-29, and
.github/workflows/vulnerability_scanner.yml lines 37-38. Replace the existing v4
pin with the specified v5 pin while leaving the setup-python references
unchanged.
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In @.github/workflows/deploy.yml:
- Around line 75-80: Configure the appleboy/ssh-action step to stop execution
when a remote deployment command fails by enabling script_stop, or prepend set
-e to the script block. Preserve the existing deployment commands while ensuring
failures such as git reset --hard "$DEPLOY_SHA" prevent subsequent commands from
running.
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Per CodeRabbit on #13. All four call sites move together — the two in build-lint-test.yml, plus deploy.yml and vulnerability_scanner.yml — so the workflows do not drift onto different majors. distribution and cache are set explicitly at every site, so nothing depends on v5's defaults. setup-python is left on v5 as it already is; only the Java action changed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Closes two of the three follow-ups in #3.
1. Actions pinned to commit SHAs
Every action now carries a full SHA with its version in a trailing comment:
aquasecurity/trivy-actionwas the worst offender — a mutable@masterreference in the step that gates deploys, so an upstream change reached the security gate with no review. It moves to thev0.36.0release commit.Pinning trades a supply-chain risk for a staleness risk: a pinned action never picks up its own security fixes. So
.github/dependabot.ymlcomes with it — a weeklygithub-actionsschedule that opens PRs when a pin falls behind. Pinning without this would be a net downgrade over time.2. Deploy the commit that was scanned
deploy.ymlrangit pull origin "$BRANCH", checking out the branch tip — not the committrivy-scanhad just approved. Anything merged between the scan and the deploy shipped unscanned.It now resets to the merge commit for this run:
Two benefits beyond the security one: the deploy is reproducible (a re-run ships the same code, not whatever has landed since), and a missing commit aborts before the migration and build steps touch anything.
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ignore-unfixed— deliberately not changedLeft as-is, and #3 stays open for it. Turning it off would fail deploys on vulnerabilities with no available patch, which turns the gate into noise and trains people to bypass it. That is a policy decision for the team, not a defect to fix in passing.
If you want the visibility without the blocking, the middle path is a scheduled full scan (including unfixed) that reports rather than gates — happy to add that separately.
Verified
All three workflows re-validated: correct top-level keys, no orphaned list items, no tabs. The modified deploy script section passed
bash -n. No unpinneduses:references remain anywhere.Note for reviewers
The first run of this PR is also the proof that the pinned SHAs resolve correctly — worth confirming the checks go green before merging, since a bad pin would fail every workflow at once.
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