Release version column -- how to set

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We released the action to the marketplace recently Deploy to Balena · Actions · GitHub Marketplace · GitHub.

I can discuss with the team writing a blog post about this work.

@bversluijs The action allows you to use an environment input which can be your open balena instance :slight_smile:

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@20k-ultra awesome! I’ll definitely try that out in our GitHub Actions workflow, once I get that setup right :slight_smile:

But the ‘release version’ field, as asked in the topic start, is that also supported by openBalena?

Thanks!

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Yup, openBalena will produce the release version as well just check if you have the latest version as the change was introduced within the last 6 months.

Take a look at my action testing repo to see my workflow file and the output.

If people need any features make an issue and I’ll respond!

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In case it’s useful: It took me a while to figure out how to get Github Actions to ignore readme only changes (why doesn’t Github make this easier?) so that a deployment is not trigged if I change some documentation without changing the app.

Here’s my setup… Probably could be better, but it works.

name: Deployment

on:
  push:
    paths-ignore:
      - './docs/**'
      - '**.md'
      - 'README.md'
      - '.gitpod.yml'
      - '.gitignore'
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  balena_cloud_build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:

      - name: Checkout
        id: checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      
      - name: Deploy to Balena
        id: deploy
        uses: balena-io/deploy-to-balena-action@master
        with:
          balena_token: ${{ secrets.BALENA_TOKEN }}
          fleet: ${{ secrets.BALENA_FLEET_SLUG }}

      - name: Log release ID built
        id: log
        run: echo "Built release ID ${{ steps.deploy.outputs.release_id }}"
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I’m sorry, I am still having issues with this.

I am using the following commands in combination with a docker-compose.yml:

balena login --token "$BALENA_TOKEN"
echo -e "type: sw.application\nversion: ${BITBUCKET_TAG}" | tee balena.yml
balena deploy MyAppName --debug

In the debug logging there is no mention of the balena.yml being parsed. I also tried .balena/balena.yml and $HOME/.balena/balena.yml.
Any suggestions here? I am not sure if the balena.yml file is not found or that my config is still wrong.
Output yaml file looks like this:

type: sw.application
version: 0.0.7