GitHub Actions makes it easy to build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub. However, etting up fastlane to work with match on GitHub Actions can take bit of juggling and manual work 😔

But fastlane-plugin-github_action to the rescue 💪

This plugin will:

Running fastlane on a CI requires the environment to be setup properly. Calling the setup_ci action does that by configuring a new keychain that will be used for code signing with match

A Deploy Key is needed for GitHub Actions to access your match repository. This action creates a new SSH key and uses the public key for the Deploy Key on your match repository.

This will only get executed if the match_org and match_repo options are specified.

The private key created for the Deploy Key is store encrypted in your repository secrets. The private key is stored under the name MATCH_DEPLOY_KEY.

Encrypted secrets will also get set for environment variables from dotenv files specified by the dotenv_paths option.

A Workflow YAML file is created at .github/workflows/fastlane.yml. This will enable your repository to start running GitHub Actions right away - once committed and pushed 😉. The Workflow YAML template will add the Deploy Key private key into the GitHub Action by loading it from the MATCH_DEPLOY_KEY secret and executing ssh-add. All of your other encrypted secrets will also be loaded into environment variables for you as well.

An example can be seen here.

This project is a fastlane plugin. To get started with fastlane-plugin-github_action, add it to your project by running:

fastlane add_plugin github_action

fastlane-plugin-github_action depends on rbnacl which uses libsodium

For macOS, libsodium can be installed with:

brew install libsodium

See https://github.com/RubyCrypto/rbnacl/wiki/Installing-libsodium for more installation instructions.

fastlane-plugin-github_action can be execute either direction on the command line with bundle exec fastlane run github_action or by adding github_action to your Fastfile.

bundle exec fastlane run github_action \
  api_token:"your-github-personal-access-token-with-all-repo-permissions" \
  org:"your-org" \
  repo:"your-repo"

or

bundle exec fastlane run github_action \
  api_token:"your-github-personal-access-token-with-all-repo-permissions" \
  org:"your-org" \
  repo:"your-repo" \
  match_org:"your-match-repo-org" \
  match_repo:"your-match-repo" \
  dotenv_paths:"fastlane/.env.secret,fastlane/.env.secret2"

lane :init_ci do
  github_action(
    api_token: "your-github-personal-access-token-with-all-repo-permissions",
    org: "your-org",
    repo: "your-repo",
    match_org: "your-match-repo-org", # optional
    match_repo: "your-match-repo", # optional
    dotenv_paths: ["fastlane/.env.secret", "fastlane/.env.secret2"] # optional
  )
end

Once installed, information and help for an action can be printed out with this command:

fastlane action github_action # or any action included with this plugin

Check out the example Fastfile to see how to use this plugin. Try it by cloning the repo, running fastlane install_plugins and bundle exec fastlane test.

To run both the tests, and code style validation, run

rake

To automatically fix many of the styling issues, use

rubocop -a

For any other issues and feedback about this plugin, please submit it to this repository.

If you have trouble using plugins, check out the Plugins Troubleshooting guide.

For more information about how the fastlane plugin system works, check out the Plugins documentation.

fastlane is the easiest way to automate beta deployments and releases for your iOS and Android apps. To learn more, check out fastlane.tools.