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Deploy Helm charts to GitHub Pages workflow (NVIDIA/k8s-device-plugin)

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Source: NVIDIA/k8s-device-plugin.github/workflows/deploy-to-pages.yamlLicense Apache-2.0View source

What it does

This is the Deploy Helm charts to GitHub Pages workflow from the NVIDIA/k8s-device-plugin repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its Apache-2.0 license.

Below, Latchkey shows a faster, safer version produced by its optimization engine.

The workflow

workflow (.yml)
# Copyright (c) NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.

name: Deploy Helm charts to GitHub Pages

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - gh-pages

  # Allow this workflow to be called from other workflows.
  workflow_call:
    inputs:
      git_ref_to_deploy:
        required: false
        type: string
        default: gh-pages

  # Allow this workflow to be run from the Actions tab.
  workflow_dispatch:
      git_ref_to_deploy:
        description: The git reference to deploy
        required: false
        type: string
        default: gh-pages

# Sets permissions of the GITHUB_TOKEN to allow deployment to GitHub Pages
permissions:
  contents: read
  pages: write
  id-token: write

# Allow only one concurrent deployment, skipping runs queued between the run in-progress and latest queued.
# However, do NOT cancel in-progress runs as we want to allow these production deployments to complete.
concurrency:
  group: "pages"
  cancel-in-progress: false

jobs:
  # Build job
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v7
        with:
          ref: ${{ inputs.git_ref_to_deploy }}
      - name: Setup Pages
        uses: actions/configure-pages@v6
      - name: Build with Jekyll
        uses: actions/jekyll-build-pages@v1
        with:
          source: ./
          destination: ./_site
      - name: Upload artifact
        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v5

  # Deployment job
  deploy:
    environment:
      name: github-pages
      url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: build
    steps:
      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
        id: deployment
        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v4

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# Copyright (c) NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.
 
name: Deploy Helm charts to GitHub Pages
 
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - gh-pages
 
  # Allow this workflow to be called from other workflows.
  workflow_call:
    inputs:
      git_ref_to_deploy:
        required: false
        type: string
        default: gh-pages
 
  # Allow this workflow to be run from the Actions tab.
  workflow_dispatch:
      git_ref_to_deploy:
        description: The git reference to deploy
        required: false
        type: string
        default: gh-pages
 
# Sets permissions of the GITHUB_TOKEN to allow deployment to GitHub Pages
permissions:
  contents: read
  pages: write
  id-token: write
 
# Allow only one concurrent deployment, skipping runs queued between the run in-progress and latest queued.
# However, do NOT cancel in-progress runs as we want to allow these production deployments to complete.
concurrency:
  group: "pages"
  cancel-in-progress: false
 
jobs:
  # Build job
  build:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v7
        with:
          ref: ${{ inputs.git_ref_to_deploy }}
      - name: Setup Pages
        uses: actions/configure-pages@v6
      - name: Build with Jekyll
        uses: actions/jekyll-build-pages@v1
        with:
          source: ./
          destination: ./_site
      - name: Upload artifact
        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v5
 
  # Deployment job
  deploy:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    environment:
      name: github-pages
      url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    needs: build
    steps:
      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
        id: deployment
        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v4
 

What changed

This workflow runs 2 jobs per trigger. On Latchkey the same minutes cost up to 58% less than GitHub-hosted, with zero queue time.

Actions used in this workflow