Deprecations in github CI

[davidcassany]

Several deprecations are mentioned on our CI jobs. We should tackle them before they are fully deprecated and jobs start to fail.

Node.js 12 actions are deprecated. For more information see: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-09-22-github-actions-all-actions-will-begin-running-on-node16-instead-of-node12/. Please update the following actions to use Node.js 16: slackapi/slack-github-action

The save-state command is deprecated and will be disabled soon. Please upgrade to using Environment Files. For more information see: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-10-11-github-actions-deprecating-save-state-and-set-output-commands/

EDIT(itxaka): This deprecation have a hard limit of summer 2023, then they will stop working.

[Itxaka]

under the elemental-operator there are actions that have no support yet for the deprecations:

• setup-kind has no updates, sent a PR: https://github.com/engineerd/setup-kind/pull/197
• golangci-lint-action also seems to have been fixed, but no release yet.
• anchore/sbom-action has a patch now, waiting for a release > 0.12.0

[Itxaka]

@davidcassany IMO this should not have a milestone as its not really needed by that date. Nice to have ASAP yes, but not a such closer date. Its a pita to go over all actions ;)

[davidcassany]

Yes agree, the milestone was essentially added to avoid touching it before the 2.6.9 release.

In fact, my only concern is about running CI refactors while go/no-go tests for a release are expected to happen. However I think most, it not all, of the current deprecations are happening in non e2e tests and UI tests.

Removing the milestone.

[Itxaka]

For elemental-cli:

• PR: https://github.com/rancher/elemental-cli/pull/345

[Itxaka]

elemental:

• PR: https://github.com/rancher/elemental/pull/463
• https://github.com/rancher/elemental/pull/494

[Itxaka]

elemental-operator:

• https://github.com/rancher/elemental-operator/pull/234

[Itxaka]

toolkit:

• https://github.com/rancher/elemental-toolkit/pull/1639

[Itxaka]

once the toolkit PR is merged only the setup-kind action will be left from our main repos. We may need to move this to the blocked column. I pinged the main contributor for the repo in my PR to see if they are willingto merge and release a new version or we need to fork it and maintain it. I hope its done by summer 2023....

[kkaempf]

Have we looked at renovatebot to automate such updates ?

[Itxaka]

Have we looked at renovatebot to automate such updates ?

checking....

[kkaempf]

Mostly done. Will open individual issues as needed.

[Itxaka]

@kkaempf just a heads up, patch for setup-kind action was closed as there is no intention of updating it. Thankfully kind is now available preinstalled on the ubuntu-22 nodes so there is no need for the install action anymore :)