Is there a change for loading .env and .secrets file?

[liyangau]

Hi everyone,

I noticed my local workflow stopped working and I was getting a lot of error complaining the env and secrets are Unknown

INFO[0000] Using docker host 'unix:///var/run/docker.sock', and daemon socket 'unix:///var/run/docker.sock'
Error: workflow is not valid. 'onboarding_push.yaml': Line: 22 Column 5: Failed to match job-factory: Line: 29 Column 28: Unknown Variable Access secrets
Line: 30 Column 36: Unknown Variable Access secrets
Line: 32 Column 21: Unknown Variable Access env
Line: 22 Column 5: Failed to match workflow-job: Line: 23 Column 5: Unknown Property runs-on
Line: 29 Column 28: Unknown Variable Access secrets
Line: 30 Column 36: Unknown Variable Access secrets
Line: 31 Column 5: Unknown Property env
Line: 33 Column 5: Unknown Property steps
Line: 91 Column 5: Failed to match job-factory: Line: 99 Column 28: Unknown Variable Access secrets
Line: 100 Column 36: Unknown Variable Access secrets
Line: 108 Column 21: Unknown Variable Access env
Line: 91 Column 5: Failed to match workflow-job: Line: 93 Column 5: Unknown Property runs-on
Line: 99 Column 28: Unknown Variable Access secrets
Line: 100 Column 36: Unknown Variable Access secrets
Line: 107 Column 5: Unknown Property env
Line: 110 Column 5: Unknown Property steps

I have .env and .secrets in the folder and reference the secret as below

  check-global-configs:
    name: Check global configs
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    strategy:
      matrix:
        env: [dev]
        include:
          - env: dev
            ADMIN_API_URL: ${{ secrets.DEV_ADMIN_API_URL }}

This used to work pretty well... Does anyone know what had changed?

[liyangau]

ok.

Something had changed.

Version 0.2.67 does not pick up .env and .secrets

➜ act --version
act version 0.2.67
➜ act pull_request -W '.github/workflows/onboarding_pr.yaml'
INFO[0000] Using docker host 'unix:///var/run/docker.sock', and daemon socket 'unix:///var/run/docker.sock'
Error: workflow is not valid. 'onboarding_pr.yaml': Line: 79 Column 5: Failed to match job-factory: Line: 87 Column 28: Unknown Variable Access secrets
Line: 88 Column 36: Unknown Variable Access secrets
Line: 96 Column 21: Unknown Variable Access env
Line: 79 Column 5: Failed to match workflow-job: Line: 81 Column 5: Unknown Property runs-on
Line: 87 Column 28: Unknown Variable Access secrets
Line: 88 Column 36: Unknown Variable Access secrets
Line: 95 Column 5: Unknown Property env
Line: 98 Column 5: Unknown Property steps

An older version runs fine

➜ ./act --version
act version 0.2.48
➜ ./act pull_request -W '.github/workflows/onboarding_pr.yaml'
[Onboard APIs checks/build-matrix] 🚀  Start image=catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest
[Onboard APIs checks/build-matrix]   🐳  docker pull image=catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest platform= username= forcePull=true
[Onboard APIs checks/build-matrix] using DockerAuthConfig authentication for docker pull
[Onboard APIs checks/build-matrix]   🐳  docker create image=catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest platform= entrypoint=["tail" "-f" "/dev/null"] cmd=[]
[Onboard APIs checks/build-matrix]   🐳  docker run image=catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest platform= entrypoint=["tail" "-f" "/dev/null"] cmd=[]
[Onboard APIs checks/build-matrix] ⭐ Run Main Checkout branch
[Onboard APIs checks/build-matrix]   🐳  docker cp src=/home/fomm/Documents/dev/kong-devops/. dst=/home/fomm/Documents/dev/kong-devops
[Onboard APIs checks/build-matrix]   ✅  Success - Main Checkout branch
[Onboard APIs checks/build-matrix] ⭐ Run Main echo "folder_matrix=$(find services/* -maxdepth 0 -type d | cut -d"/" -f2 | jq -R -s -c 'split("\n")[:-1]')" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT

[ChristopherHX]

check-global-configs:
name: Check global configs
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
strategy:
matrix:
env: [dev]
include:
- env: dev
ADMIN_API_URL: ${{ secrets.DEV_ADMIN_API_URL }}

This is a syntax violation per GitHub Actions a job matrix cannot make use of any sort of secrets, that this workflow worked in the past was a bug

See https://docs.github.com/en/actions/writing-workflows/choosing-what-your-workflow-does/accessing-contextual-information-about-workflow-runs#context-availability

Why do you think this should run? Are you using act for a ci system and not for developing GitHub Actions?

[ylbeethoven]

Thanks for the pointer, I will fix my pipeline accordingly.