issueops-samples

Solutions

• 🆕 Create Repo (IssueOps)
• 🪓 Delete Repo (IssueOps)
• 🏷️ Labelops
• ✨ Reusable Worfklow repo onboarder (IssueOps) (separate repository)

General Features

• issue template and issue parsing
• uses GitHub App for authentication
• posting back comment to repo with instructions after initial issue creation
• renames the issue after creation for consistency
• creating repo using Octokit JavaScript SDK
• adds issue label when the repo after job completion

Setup

Credentials

• The solution uses a GitHub App for authentication
  • Actions secrets/variables:
    • Secret: PRIVATE_KEY
    • Variable: APP_ID
  • Permissions required:
    • Repository:
      • administration: read/write (for creating/deleting repos)
      • contents: read/write (for pushing code to the new repo)
      • issues: read/write (for updating/closing issues)
      • workflows: read/write (for pushing workflow files)
    • Organization:
      • none

Labels

Create the appropriate labels

gh label create create-repo
gh label create created

gh label create delete-repos
gh label create deleted

Tip

If your terminal isn't running under the cloned repository, you can pass in the --repo flag to the gh command. For example: gh label create create-repo --repo joshjohanning-org/issueops-samples

Example Issue

• Create repo example
• Delete repo(s) example

Notes

• This often assumes the org that the IssueOps repo is hosted in is the org you are using for API calls (ie: to create/delete repos). Update the owner as appropriate or modify the issue template to allow that as an input.