Add a github action to generate documentation using mkdocs

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If you have a tool that uses the python's click module for building a command line interface. Using mkdocs and mkdocs-click we can automatically generate documentation for it

14/06/2022

Update a different repository using a github action

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When building an application we might like to update a different repository to update the app's versions number. For example, if we build a docker containter using a github action we might want to update the tag on the helm repository. This is by default restricted: a github action only has access to it's own repository but we can create a PAT to workaround this problem

29/10/2021

Replace a string on commit using a github action

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Using a github action we can make it search for a given string an replace it for another when we commit the data. It can be useful to fix common mistakes

01/10/2021

How to build a multi architecture docker image using a github action

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Using buildx we can build multi architecture containers, we can use a github action to automatically build it

28/09/2021

mkdit: Yet another cure for your mistyping

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It is quite anoying when you keep typing mkdit instead of mkdir for creating a directory just as it is to type sl instead of ls. At least, for sl there's an actual Debian package that, the Steam Locomotive. Having this in mind I created another tool called mkdir:

https://github.com/jordiprats/bash-mkdit

Using this as an example we will configure a github action to build .deb and .rpm packages for this tool.

22/01/2021