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When forking GitGitGadget's GitHub App, GitHub Actions are turned off by default. Allow deploying the App in such circumstances by adding a workflow dispatch trigger. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
This allows overriding the default Azure Function name used for deploying via setting a repository secret (in Settings>Secrets and variables). The name of the Azure Function is treated as a secret because it can be used to derive the URL of the Azure Function and to attempt to DOS it. At this point, it is not _actually_ necessary to provide the correct Azure Function app name here, as we are using a so-called "publish profile" that overrides the app name. However, we are about to switch to Role-Based Access Control, where it very much matters whether the correct name is specified or not. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
Apparently the `publish-profile` deployments are no longer working as expected for recently-created Azure Functions. That is, the existing `gitgitgadget` Function still works, obviously, but when I registered a new Function as described in the `README.md` and tried to deploy it the same way as `gitgitgadget`, it failed thusly: ▶ Run Azure/functions-action@v1 Successfully parsed SCM credential from publish-profile format. Using SCM credential for authentication, GitHub Action will not perform resource validation. (node:1549) [DEP0005] DeprecationWarning: Buffer() is deprecated due to security and usability issues. Please use the Buffer.alloc(), Buffer.allocUnsafe(), or Buffer.from() methods instead. (Use `node --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created) Error: Execution Exception (state: ValidateAzureResource) (step: Invocation) Error: When request Azure resource at ValidateAzureResource, Get Function App Settings : Failed to acquire app settings from https://<scmsite>/api/settings with publish-profile Error: Failed to fetch Kudu App Settings. Unauthorized (CODE: 401) Error: Error: Failed to fetch Kudu App Settings. Unauthorized (CODE: 401) at Kudu.<anonymous> (/home/runner/work/_actions/Azure/functions-action/v1/lib/appservice-rest/Kudu/azure-app-kudu-service.js:69:23) at Generator.next (<anonymous>) at fulfilled (/home/runner/work/_actions/Azure/functions-action/v1/lib/appservice-rest/Kudu/azure-app-kudu-service.js:5:58) at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5) Error: Deployment Failed! My guess is that finally the reality of publish profiles being highly insecure has caught up with new Azure Function registrations, and it is now required to use much more secure methods instead. Let's use OpenID Connect, as it is tied to the GitHub workflow and is therefore as secure as it gets. Even if the name of the Managed Identity, the tenant and the subscription IDs are known, an attacker cannot authenticate as that managed identity. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
With this change, the GitGitGadget GitHub App truly learns about projects other than Git. Instead of hard-coding the respective project-dependent values, it now reads the project configuration from the `gitgitgadget-config.json` file, which adheres to the `IConfig` interface defined in https://github.com/gitgitgadget/gitgitgadget/blob/HEAD/lib/project-config.ts. One caveat: Since the App needs to know which `gitgitgadget-workflows` fork to target when triggering the GitHub workflows, an additional entry is required in the configuration that is _not_ defined in `IConfig`: workflowsRepo:{owner: "gitgitgadget-workflows", name: "gitgitgadget-workflows" } Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
It would be nice if we could deploy the Azure Function contingent on the presence of the `AZURE_CLIENT_ID` secret. However, this is not possible in GitHub workflows: the job-level `if:` conditions lack access to the `secrets` context. Strangely enough, they _do_ have access to the `vars` context... To successfully deploy the Azure Function, it needs to know which `gitgitgadget-workflows` fork to target when triggering workflow runs, anyway, so let's _require_ a repository variable called `DEPLOY_WITH_WORKFLOWS` that specifies that fork in the form `<org>/gitgitgadget-workflows`. Note that such a `gitgitgadget-workflows` fork _must_ have the `config` branch, with a `gitgitgadget-config.json` file that contains the corresponding project configuration; The `deploy` workflow will retrieve this configuration and overwrite `gitgitgadget-config.json` with it, augmenting the `workflowsRepo` information on the fly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
Now that I am trying to establish support for projects other than Git, I need to register a new GitHub App. Let's document that process better for the next person who wants to repeat that feat. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
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dscho commented Oct 7, 2025
Ooops. I had forgotten that I had already a PR for this: #7. I updated its branch and description and will close this here PR in favor of that one. |
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This is the culmination of the huge journey that started with the big chunk of work ending in #4 (evacuating GitGitGadget from Azure Pipelines and running everything in GitHub workflows instead).
There are still a couple of PRs that need to be merged before this here PR can be merged:
configas input gitgitgadget#1991validate-configAction gitgitgadget#2030CONFIGrepository variable gitgitgadget-workflows#13