Github Actions: Bash shell -e -o pipefail
Bash shell in Github actions by default is run with -e -o pipefail option. The full command used by Github actions is :
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Hashing files
During CI/CD processes, and particularly during CI, we frequently hash dependency files to create cache keys (referred to as key input in Github Action actions/cache and key parameter in Azure pipelines Cache@2 task). However, the default hash functions come with certain limitations like this comment. To address this, we can use the following pure Bash shell command to manually generate the hash value.
Github Actions: copdips/get-azure-keyvault-secrets-action
Recently, I began a new project that requires migrating some process from Azure Pipelines to Github Actions. One of the tasks involves retrieving secrets from Azure Key Vault.
In Azure Pipelines, we have an official task called AzureKeyVault@2 designed for this purpose. However, its official counterpart in Github Actions, Azure/get-keyvault-secrets@v1, has been deprecated. The recommended alternative is Azure CLI. While Azure CLI is a suitable option, it operates in a bash shell without multithreading. If numerous secrets need to be fetched, this can be time-consuming.
Databricks Python pip authentication
Before the Databricks Unit Catalog's release, we used init scripts stored in DBFS to generate the pip.conf file during cluster startup, allowing each cluster its unique auth token. But with init scripts no longer available in the Unit Catalog's shared mode, an alternative approach is required.