Integrate Shipyard

Securely authenticate into Shipyard-generated environments to test before merge by running E2E tests against an ephemeral environment on every commit.

This action connects to Shipyard using your API token and fetches the environment variables necessary to test against your existing environments within your GitHub Actions workflow.

Setup

• Obtain your API token from your Shipyard Org Settings page

  

• Create a new GitHub repository secret named SHIPYARD_API_TOKEN

• Open a PR on your Shipyard-enabled app

How to use

In your GitHub workflow file located in .github/workflows/, you can use the Shipyard GitHub Action as per the following example:

on: [pull_request]

jobs:
  cypress-e2e-tests:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Auth into Shipyard and run Cypress E2E tests against ephemeral environments
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Integrate Shipyard
        uses: shipyard/shipyard-action@1.0.0
        env:
          SHIPYARD_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SHIPYARD_API_TOKEN }}
      - name: Run E2E tests against the ephemeral environment
        run: npm run test
        shell: bash
        env:
            CYPRESS_BASE_URL: $SHIPYARD_ENVIRONMENT_URL
            CYPRESS_BYPASS_TOKEN: $SHIPYARD_BYPASS_TOKEN
        

This action can be configured by passing inputs or environment variables:

Inputs

  - name: Integrate Shipyard
    uses: shipyard/shipyard-action@1.0.0
    with:
        api-token: ${{ secrets.SHIPYARD_API_TOKEN }}
        timeout-minutes: 30

Input name	Description	Default Value
api-token	Token required to connect to Shipyard's APIs. Can be obtained from your Shipyard Org Settings page	-
timeout-minutes	Number of minutes to wait for Shipyard environment before timing out.	60
app-name	Filter the environments by name of the application on the Shipyard app.	-

Environment Variables

  - name: Integrate Shipyard
    uses: shipyard/shipyard-action@1.0.0
    env:
      SHIPYARD_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SHIPYARD_API_TOKEN }}
      SHIPYARD_TIMEOUT: 30
      INPUT_APP_NAME: 'react-app'

Environment Variable	Description	Default Value
SHIPYARD_API_TOKEN	Token required to connect to Shipyard's APIs. Can be obtained from your Shipyard Org Settings page	-
SHIPYARD_TIMEOUT	Number of minutes to wait for Shipyard environment before timing out.	60
SHIPYARD_APP_NAME	Filter the environments by name of the application on the Shipyard app.	-

NOTE: Inputs are given precedence over environment variables.

If input api-token or environment variable SHIPYARD_API_TOKEN is not provided, error is raised.

On a successful run, the following environment variables are set, which can then be passed on to other actions in the same workflow:

Parameter Name	Description
SHIPYARD_ENVIRONMENT_URL	URL of the ephemeral environment
SHIPYARD_ENVIRONMENT_ID	ID of the ephemeral environment
SHIPYARD_BYPASS_TOKEN	Token to bypass authentication

Resources

Shipyard Documentation