GitHub Action - Execute a script on isolated ubuntu environment

This Github action executes a shell script inside a separate docker container, which is cleaner than the default runner environment.

Usage

Inputs

• script: Script path to execute. Relative to $GITHUB_WORKSPACE.
• on: Codename of ubuntu to execute build script. focal(20.04) or jammy(22.04).

Outputs

No outputs.

Example workflow - build a project!

on: push
name: Build binaries
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
      matrix:
        codename: [focal, jammy]
    name: Create Release
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          submodules: 'recursive'
          fetch-depth: 0
      - name: Build the binary
        uses: avif-community/execute-on-separated-ubuntu@main
        with:
          on: ${{ matrix.codename }}
          script: scripts/build.sh

This will execute (your-repository)/scripts/build.sh in both ubuntu-20.04 and 22.04. Created artifacts are stored in $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so you can upload as an artifact, as an release asset and so on.