Action for publishing Sunbeam extensions

A Sunbeam extension is any GitHub repository named sunbeam-* that publishes a Release with precompiled binaries. This GitHub Action can be used in your extension repository to automate the creation and publishing of those binaries.

Go extensions

Create a workflow file at .github/workflows/release.yml:

name: release

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - "v*"

permissions:
  contents: write

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: pomdtr/sunbeam-extension-precompile@v1
        with:
          go_version: "1.21"

Then, either push a new git tag like v1.0.0 to your repository, or create a new Release and have it initialize the associated git tag.

When the release workflow finishes running, compiled binaries will be uploaded as assets to the v1.0.0 Release and your extension will be installable by users of sunbeam extension install on supported platforms.

You can safely test out release automation by creating tags that have a - in them; for example: v2.0.0-rc.1. Such Releases will be published as prereleases and will not count as a stable release of your extension.

To maximize portability of built products, this action builds Go binaries with cgo disabled. To override that, set the CGO_ENABLED environment variable:

- uses: pomdtr/sunbeam-extension-precompile@v1
  env:
    CGO_ENABLED: 1

Checksum file and signing

This action can optionally produce a checksum file for all published executables and sign it with GPG.

To enable this, make sure your repository has the secrets GPG_SECRET_KEY and GPG_PASSPHRASE set. Then, configure this action like so:

name: release

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - "v*"

permissions:
  contents: write

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - id: import_gpg
        uses: crazy-max/ghaction-import-gpg@v5
        with:
          gpg_private_key: ${{ secrets.GPG_PRIVATE_KEY }}
          passphrase: ${{ secrets.GPG_PASSPHRASE }}
      - uses: pomdtr/sunbeam-extension-precompile@v1
        with:
          gpg_fingerprint: ${{ steps.import_gpg.outputs.fingerprint }}