Watch2–part 4–CI and CD

Now I want to do build and auto-deployment as a Nuget Package( at https://www.nuget.org/packages/watch2 )

The most simple build action on GitHub Actions is simple example of how to do it.

name: .NET

on:
  push:
    branches: [ main ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ main ]
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      with:
        fetch-depth: 0

    - name: Setup .NET 8
      uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v3
      with:
        dotnet-version: 8.0.x
    
    - name: build
      run: |
        cd src 
        cd Watch2
        dotnet restore
        dotnet build 
        
        

However,I want to do more than that. I want to build,test and deploy on demand the Nuget package to Nuget.org.

However,the building should be done first on local – and then with GitHub Actions – the deployment should be done.

For this I do like https://github.com/xt0rted/dotnet-run-script

This is how I use to do test and pack,by using a global.json file

{
  "scripts": {
    "build": "dotnet build --configuration Release",
    "test": "dotnet test --configuration Release",
    "ci": "dotnet r build && dotnet r test",
    "pack":"dotnet r ci && cd Watch2 && dotnet pack -o ../../nugetPackages"
  }
}

So the github action now looks like this

name: compile and deploy with tag v*

on:
  push:
    branches: [ "main" ]
    tags: [ 'v*' ] # Listen for tag pushes that match version tags
  pull_request:
    branches: [ "main" ]

jobs:
  build:
    # runs-on: windows-latest
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
    
    - name: Setup .NET
      uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v3
      with:
        dotnet-version: 8.0.x

    - name: Restore dependencies
      run: |
        dotnet tool install --global PowerShell
        cd src 
        cd Watch2
        dotnet restore
        
    - name: Build
      run: |
        cd src
        cd Watch2
        dotnet tool restore
        dotnet r pack

    - name: 'Upload nuget'
      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
      with:
        name: Nuget_${{github.run_number}}
        path: src/nugetPackages
        retention-days: 1
  
    - name: push to nuget
      if: startsWith(github.ref,'refs/tags/v') # This line ensures the step runs only if a tag version is present
      run: |
        dir src/nugetPackages/*.*
        echo '1'
        dir src/nugetPackages/*.symbols.nupkg  
        echo '2'
        cd src
        cd nugetPackages
        dotnet nuget push "*.symbols.nupkg" --api-key  ${{ secrets.NUGET_KEY  }} --source https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json
    

More,we should add to github Settings => Secrets and variables => Actions secrets a new secret with name NUGET_KEY

The build and test are made automatically . More,if I want to deploy also,then
1. I modify the version in the csproj file

	<PropertyGroup>
		<Version>8.2024.1102.950</Version>
	</PropertyGroup>

2. I push the changes to the repository with a tag ( e.g. v8.2024.1102.950)

So this achieves the CI/CD basic .