GitHub

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GitHub Artifacts Account

• Spinnaker can be configured to listen to changes to a repository in GitHub. These steps show you how to configure a GitHub artifact account so that Spinnaker can download files from GitHub.

Prerequisites

• It’s mandatory to have a valid GitHub Account.

Downloading GitHub Credentials:

• Follow the below steps to generate an Access Token for GitHub. Ensure to provide repo scope for the newly created Token.

• Place the token in a file $TOKEN_File readable by Halyard:

      echo $TOKEN > $TOKEN_FILE

Enable GitHub Artifact Settings

• Ensure to have the following values enabled

      # See the prerequisites section above
      TOKEN_FILE=
  
      ARTIFACT_ACCOUNT_NAME=my-github-artifact-account

• Ensure to have the GitHub Artifacts Support is enabled on Spinnaker

      hal config features edit --artifacts true
      hal config artifact github enable

• Execute the following command to add an Artifact Account

      hal config artifact github account add $ARTIFACT_ACCOUNT_NAME \
      --token-file $TOKEN_FILE

Note: To Explore more options on this configuration, click here