Official GitHub Actions

As I went deep into how to use DevOps with PlanetScale, I really wanted to demonstrate how PlanetScale can be used in CI environments so I got the idea to create and publish the first wave of official Actions that our customers could use.

After researching how to create Actions that can be published to the marketplace, I opted to use Docker since already have the PlanetScale CLI published as a Docker image on Docker Hub. I used some previously created helper scripts built in Bash that have some helpful utilities and essentially merged the two together.

The dockerfile is built using the planetscale/pscale image as its base, and uses curl to pull in the pinned version of the helper scripts mentioned above.

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A service token and parameters are passed into the container for the Action step to perform whatever operation its intended to do. For instance, this will create a new branch of a PlanetScale database:

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Additional resources:

• https://github.com/planetscale/create-branch-action
• https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-the-planetscale-github-actions