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Migrate release pipeline from azure to github actions (#10643)
Related to https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/10581

Following up on https://github.com/certbot/certbot/pull/10631,
https://github.com/certbot/certbot/pull/10622, and
https://github.com/certbot/certbot/pull/10634, this PR converts the
release
[pipeline](https://dev.azure.com/certbot/certbot/_build?definitionId=3)
from Azure to Github Actions.

While this is the last migration PR, I don't think we should close the
issue, as we're still using launchpad for armhf builds. I plan to
continue investigating that and at minimum write up my findings.

To test
[notifications](https://opensource.eff.org/eff-open-source/pl/nfgh6obi8tfqikn4ydp7dshakr)
and creating a [github
release](https://github.com/ohemorange/Things-that-are-gr9/releases/tag/v1.0.19),
I ran workflows that no-oped most the other jobs [in a test
repo](https://github.com/ohemorange/Things-that-are-gr9/actions/runs/25938082721)
(I've made minor changes to names and comments since then, but no code
changes). Everything else is basically the same as nightly, with
different tags. For the docker deployment, `${{ github.ref_name }}` is
the tag name, so `v1.2.3`.

Why not parametrize the tests a bit more, by putting an `env` at the top
with `dockerTag: ${{ github.ref_name }}` and `snapReleaseChannel: beta`?
Because the `env` context is [not
available](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflows-and-actions/contexts#context-availability)
to `with`; only `github, needs, strategy, matrix, inputs, vars`. We
could use `vars`, by creating `docker_tag_release` or whatever in the
[variable
section](https://github.com/certbot/certbot/settings/variables/actions)
of the repo settings by using the web interface, but that seems worse to
me than having it in the file but twice.

You will note that the contents of `release.yml` are very similar to
`nightly.yml`. While it would be nice to factor that out and reuse the
code, github actions would then flatten everything in the grouped code
together, making the results much harder to check. You can see what that
flattening would look like
[here](https://github.com/ohemorange/Things-that-are-gr9/actions/runs/25941524972)
(if we put them all in one workflow). Currently, it will look something
like
[this](https://github.com/certbot/certbot/actions/runs/25688414262),
which is much more readable.

We could split it into "stages" like we had in azure pipelines (probably
1. standard and extended tests (and changelog?), 2. snap package and
deploy (depend on tests), 3. docker package and deploy (depend on
tests), 4. github release (depend on snap package and deploy), 5-6.
notify (depend on github release)), but in addition to a minor slowdown
(currently github release only depends on snap and docker package, not
deploy, just so we're trying to do all the deployments simultaneously
and not partially in case of build failures), it would still be only
like three fewer jobs, since we'd still want all the info passing and
dependency relationships.

While it would be nice from a UX perspective to group the two
notification jobs together, you can't do that cleanly using the built-in
`if` key, and I don't think it's worth switching to a messier github
api-based version just to group them.

For mattermost notifications, we currently get the person to tag by
running `AUTHOR_NAME="$(git log -1 --pretty=format:'%an')"` and mapping
that to mattermost username. We could instead use `github.actor` to get
the github handle, and map that instead. I didn't bother since we
already have working, tested code, but can if a reviewer thinks it's
worth it.

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Co-authored-by: Will Greenberg <willg@eff.org>
Co-authored-by: Brad Warren <bmw@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-06-10 11:43:49 -07:00
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ISSUE_TEMPLATE Add template for code maintenance task (#10251) 2025-03-28 16:41:50 +00:00
workflows Migrate release pipeline from azure to github actions (#10643) 2026-06-10 11:43:49 -07:00
codecov.yml Start sending coverage data to codecov (#9544) 2023-01-26 08:15:51 +11:00
CODEOWNERS try adding codeowners (#10532) 2026-01-07 10:47:33 -08:00
FUNDING.yml Use new GitHub templates. Add funding link (#8845) 2021-05-14 11:43:58 -07:00
pull_request_template.md Add notice about AI generated code policy to pull request checklist (#10590) 2026-03-05 11:02:22 -08:00