A GitHub Action for triggering a build on a Buildkite pipeline.

• Creates builds in Buildkite pipelines, setting commit, branch, message.
• Provides the build JSON response and the build URL as outputs for downstream actions.

Create a Buildkite API Access Token with write_builds scope, and save it to your GitHub repository’s Settings → Secrets. Then you can configure your Actions workflow with the details of the pipeline to be triggered, and the settings for the build.

The following workflow creates a new Buildkite build to the target pipeline on every commit.

on: [push]

steps:
  - name: Trigger a Buildkite Build
    uses: "buildkite/[email protected]"
    with:
      buildkite_api_access_token: ${{ secrets.TRIGGER_BK_BUILD_TOKEN }} 
      pipeline: "my-org/my-deploy-pipeline"
      branch: "master"
      commit: "HEAD"
      message:  ":github: Triggered from a GitHub Action"
      build_env_vars: '{"TRIGGERED_FROM_GHA": "true"}'
      build_meta_data: '{"FOO": "bar"}'
      ignore_pipeline_branch_filter: true     

The following outputs are provided by the action:

To run the test workflow, you use act which will run it just as it does on GitHub:

act -n

To run the tests locally, use the plugin tester (that has everything already installed) by running the Docker command

docker run --rm -ti -v "$PWD":/plugin buildkite/plugin-tester:v4.0.0

• Fork this repository
• Create a new branch for your work
• Push up any changes to your branch, and open a pull request. Don't feel it needs to be perfect — incomplete work is totally fine. We'd love to help get it ready for merging.

• Create a new GitHub release. The version numbers in the readme will be automatically updated.

• Add a WAIT option for waiting for the Buildkite build to finish.
• Support other properties available in the Buildkite Builds REST API, such as environment variables and meta-data.

Contributions welcome! ❤️