GitHub Action: Run tflint with reviewdog

This action runs tflint with reviewdog on pull requests to enforce best practices.

Examples

With github-pr-check

By default, with reporter: github-pr-check an annotation is added to the line:

With github-pr-review

With reporter: github-pr-review a comment is added to the Pull Request Conversation:

Inputs

github_token

Required. Must be in form of github_token: ${{ secrets.github_token }}.

level

Optional. Report level for reviewdog [info,warning,error]. It's same as -level flag of reviewdog. The default is error.

reporter

Optional. Reporter of reviewdog command [github-pr-check,github-pr-review]. The default is github-pr-check.

filter_mode

Optional. Filtering for the reviewdog command [added,diff_context,file,nofilter].

The default is added.

See reviewdog documentation for filter mode for details.

fail_level

Optional. If set to none, always use exit code 0 for reviewdog. Otherwise, exit code 1 for reviewdog if it finds at least 1 issue with severity greater than or equal to the given level. Possible values: [none, any, info, warning, error] Default is none.

fail_on_error

Deprecated, use fail_level instead. Optional. Exit code for reviewdog when errors are found [true,false].

The default is false.

See reviewdog documentation for exit codes for details.

working_directory

Optional. Directory to run the action on, from the repo root. The default is . ( root of the repository).

tflint_version

Optional. The tflint version to install and use. The default is latest.

tflint_rulesets

Optional. Space separated, official (from the terraform-linters GitHub organization) tflint rulesets to install and use. If a pre-configured TFLINT_PLUGIN_DIR is set, rulesets are installed in that directory. Default is `` (empty).

tflint_init

Optional. Whether to run tflint --init prior to linting (useful if you have a .tflint.hcl with some values in it). The default is false.

tflint_target_dir

Optional. The target dir for the tflint command. This is the directory passed to tflint as opposed to working_directory which is the directory the command is executed from. The default is ..

tflint_config

Optional. Config file name for tflint. The default is .tflint.hcl

flags

Optional. List of arguments to send to tflint. For the output to be parsable by reviewdog --format=checkstyle is enforced. The default is --call-module-type=all.

Outputs

tflint-return-code

The tflint command return code.

reviewdog-return-code

The reviewdog command return code.

Example usage

name: reviewdog
on: [pull_request]
jobs:
  tflint:
    name: runner / tflint
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Clone repo
        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2

      # Install latest Terraform manually as
      #  Docker-based GitHub Actions are
      #  slow due to lack of caching
      # Note: Terraform is not needed for tflint
      - name: Install Terraform
        run: |
          brew install terraform

      # Run init to get module code to be able to use `--call-module-type=all`
      - name: Terraform init
        run: |
          terraform init

      # Minimal example
      - name: tflint
        uses: reviewdog/action-tflint@41b4770c9d9e50741c20e431986b33124a07ca52 # v1.24.2
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.github_token }}

      # More complex example
      - name: tflint
        uses: reviewdog/action-tflint@41b4770c9d9e50741c20e431986b33124a07ca52 # v1.24.2
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.github_token }}
          working_directory: "testdata" # Optional. Change working directory
          reporter: github-pr-review # Optional. Change reporter
          fail_level: "any" # Optional. Fail action if it finds at least 1 issue with severity greater than or equal to the given level.
          filter_mode: "nofilter" # Optional. Check all files, not just the diff
          tflint_version: "v0.24.0" # Optional. Custom version, instead of latest
          tflint_rulesets: "azurerm google" # Optional. Extra official rulesets to install
          flags: "--call-module-type=all" # Optional. Add custom tflint flags

Development

Release

haya14busa/action-bumpr

You can bump version on merging Pull Requests with specific labels (bump:major,bump:minor,bump:patch). Pushing tag manually by yourself also work.

haya14busa/action-update-semver

This action updates major/minor release tags on a tag push. e.g. Update v1 and v1.2 tag when released v1.2.3. ref: https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-actions#versioning-your-action

Lint - reviewdog integration

This reviewdog action template itself is integrated with reviewdog to run lints which is useful for Docker container based actions.

Supported linters:

• reviewdog/action-shellcheck
• reviewdog/action-hadolint
• reviewdog/action-misspell