Expose APPLICATION_INSIGHTS_KEY as environment for the following steps

README.md

@@ -14,29 +14,20 @@ jobs:
   build-and-deploy:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      # checkout the repo
-      - name: "Checkout Github Action"
-        uses: actions/checkout@master
-      - uses: azure/login@v1
+      - uses: azure/login@v1 # Login to Azure
         with:
           creds: ${{ secrets.AZURE_CREDENTIALS }}
       - name: Get Application Insights Key
-        id: insights # step id for later reference
+        # id: insights # step id for later reference
         uses: waeltken/get-application-insights-key-action@v1
         with:
           resource-group-name: ${{ env.RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME }}
           application-insights-name: ${{ env.APPLICATION_INSIGHTS_NAME }}
-
-      - name: Setup Node 10.x
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v1
-        with:
-          node-version: "10.x"
-      - name: "npm install, build, and test"
-        env:
-          # reference the application insights key:
-          APPLICATION_INSIGHTS_KEY: ${{ steps.insights.outputs.key }}
-        run: |
-          npm install
-          npm run build --if-present
-          npm run test --if-present
+        # The Action exposes the Application Insights Instrumentation Key as
+        # ${{ env.APPLICATION_INSIGHTS_KEY }}
+        # You can also access the value from the steps output like this:
+        # ${{ steps.insights.outputs.key }}
+      - name: "run more steps"
+        # APPLICATION_INSIGHTS_KEY environment variable visible here:
+        run: echo $APPLICATION_INSIGHTS_KEY
 ```

action.yaml

@@ -21,3 +21,6 @@ runs:
       shell: bash
       id: insights
       run: echo "::set-output name=key::$(az resource show -g ${{ inputs.resource-group-name }} -n ${{ inputs.application-insights-name }} --resource-type 'microsoft.insights/components' --query 'properties.InstrumentationKey' -o tsv)"
+    - name: Expose key as environment variable
+      shell: bash
+      run: echo "APPLICATION_INSIGHTS_KEY=${{ steps.insights.outputs.key }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV