Beame

This action will transfer your file-system across jobs. Just choose whether you'd like to beam "up" or "down".

Description

Beame uses Github Actions Artifacts to persist portions of your file system. It defaults to the entirety of your work folder (${{ github.workspace }}), which is usually very helpful, but it can also be easily customized.

Unlike Github's artifact toolkit, Beame compresses and streams your files, which substantially reduces up/down times.

note: The artifacts created by "beame" are not designed to be consumed directly (which the use of this action).

Inputs

direction

Either:

• up - To upload files from your current job's filesystem
• down - To download files to your current job's filesystem

Default: up

folder

The folder from which to read files upon beaming "up" or to which to write files to when beaming "down".

Default: ${{ github.workspace }}

pattern

The glob pattern to be used when beaming "up". Relative to folder.

Default: ** (all files)

artifact

The name of the Github Actions artifact. down beams should use the same artifact name as their counterpart up beams.

Default: beam_me_artifact

Example usage

on: [push]

jobs:
  upload:
  runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  name: Upload
  steps:
  - uses: actions/setup-node@v2
    with:
      node-version: '14'
  - uses: actions/checkout@v2
  - run: npm i
  - run: echo "Hello World" > hello.txt
  - name: This will beame the working folder up
    uses: Vonage/beame@main

download:
needs: upload
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
name: Download
steps:
  - name: This will beame the working folder down
    uses: Vonage/beame@main
    with:
     direction: "down"
  - run: ls -al