Create a GitHub action to make previews easier

[lucasfcosta]

[SaumyaBhushan]

Hi @lucasfcosta ! Can you please provide more details on this one ?

[lucasfcosta]

Hi @SaumyaBhushan! Sure, apologies for the lack of detail.

Essentially, we want to make it easier for people to create pull-request previews using Layerform. That means creating a separate GitHub action that we could distribute for them.

That would require automatically configuring the .layerform/config file and making it easier for people to determine which part of Layerform's output is the actual preview link URL which would go into a comment.

Overall, the flow of such a GH action should be something like this:

• User specifies back-end and provides credentials to S3 bucket through secrets configured on GH
• User specifies the name of the layer to go up on every pull request
• User specifies which output path is the link

Then:

• User opens a PR
• Layerform runs
• URL is extracted from output and posted in the PR as a comment

This is a fairly involved task and requires some deep thought into how to design it in a way that's easier for people to use.

Please lmk what you think.

[SaumyaBhushan]

Thank you for your response @lucasfcosta . Yes, I agree this is a fairly involved task and needs thinking into how to design it.

I am just getting started with this Project and I have worked on GitHub actions before. I will be happy to get involved but will need your support to accomplish this.