Add summary input to publish deployed endpoints on the run

[lionello]

Closes #14

What

Adds a summary input (on by default for compose up) that surfaces the deployment result on the GitHub run instead of leaving it buried in the collapsed action log.

When the summary runs, after the command the action calls defang services --json and:

• writes a table of deployed services to the job summary — public endpoints as links, internal services as code, and
• exposes the primary public https:// endpoint as a new endpoint output, for wiring into a job's environment.url (gives a clickable "View deployment" link on the run, Environments tab, and repo sidebar).

Usage

jobs:
  deploy:
    environment:
      name: production
      url: ${{ steps.deploy.outputs.endpoint }}
    steps:
      - id: deploy
        uses: DefangLabs/defang-github-action@v2
        with:
          command: compose up

Why not step outputs / capture-output

This writes straight to $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY (1 MiB per step) rather than the size-limited $GITHUB_OUTPUT channel, and defang services output is small and bounded — so it is safe even for large deployments where capture-output is disabled. Only the single primary endpoint (a short URL) goes through the output channel.

Notes

• On by default when the command is compose up (per review); summary: "false" opts out, summary: "true" forces it for other commands.
• Also per review: capture-output now defaults to false. The only consumer of the stdout output is defang-mvp's run-estimate, made explicit in DefangLabs/defang-mvp#3191 — merge that first.
• Reuses DEFANG_STACK / DEFANG_PROVIDER / COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME already exported into $GITHUB_ENV, so it doesn't re-pass stack/provider.
• jq is preinstalled on GitHub-hosted runners.
• Degrades cleanly: no services / no public endpoint → "No services found." and an empty endpoint.

Companion

Consumed by DefangLabs/samples#660, which drops its separate services step in favor of this.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features

• Added optional deployment summaries to GitHub job summaries.
• Displays deployed services in a Markdown table or indicates when none are available.
• Exposes the primary public HTTPS endpoint as an action output.
• Supports linking the endpoint to a job’s environment URL.
• Made stdout capture opt-in with capture-output: true.

Documentation

• Added workflow examples for deployment summaries, endpoint capture, and environment URL configuration.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The action adds optional deployment summaries. It reports deployed services in the GitHub job summary, exposes the primary HTTPS endpoint as an output, and documents environment URL wiring. Compose-file selection now uses environment variables.

Changes

Deployment summary

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Summary contract and generation action.yaml	The action adds the summary input and endpoint output. When enabled, it retrieves services, writes a Markdown summary, and emits the first HTTPS endpoint.
Compose-file environment wiring action.yaml	The action passes compose files through COMPOSE_FILE and COMPOSE_PATH_SEPARATOR instead of repeated -f arguments.
Workflow documentation and wiring README.md	The README documents summary usage, changes output capture to opt-in, adds the deployment step ID, and links the endpoint output to the environment URL.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to dd741

The opt-in deployment summary and endpoint output change has no actionable merge-blocking risk remaining; it is merge-ready after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHubActionsRunner
  participant DefangCLI
  participant GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
  GitHubActionsRunner->>DefangCLI: Fetch deployed services as JSON
  DefangCLI-->>GitHubActionsRunner: Return services or command failure
  GitHubActionsRunner->>GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY: Append services table or no-services message
  GitHubActionsRunner-->>GitHubActionsRunner: Emit first HTTPS endpoint as action output

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✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The action publishes deployed service endpoints through the job summary and exposes the primary HTTPS endpoint for GitHub deployment URLs, satisfying issue #14.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The documentation, input defaults, compose environment handling, and summary behavior support the linked deployment URL objective.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: adding an opt-in summary input to publish deployed endpoints in the GitHub Actions run.

✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch lio/deployment-summary

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In `@action.yaml`:
- Around line 241-273: Add set -o pipefail at the beginning of the Deployment
summary step’s run block, before the params initialization and any pipelines, so
failures in the jq and echo pipelines propagate correctly.
- Around line 266-272: Update the service-report condition around the services
length check to also require a non-empty public endpoint before rendering the
table. When services are absent or endpoint is empty, emit “_No services
found._”; otherwise preserve the existing table and endpoint-link formatting.
- Around line 253-255: Update the services assignment in the deployment-summary
flow so the successful defang services JSON is preserved unchanged, while
services is set to [] only when defang services --json fails; avoid appending
the fallback to successful output, ensuring jq length receives exactly one JSON
value.

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All review feedback is now addressed, in two commits (6a9a025 and dd7410d):

• summary: on by default when the command is compose up (with or without extra arguments). summary: "false" opts out; summary: "true" forces it for other commands.
• capture-output: now defaults to false. defang-global has no workflows that use this action. The only consumer of the stdout output in the org is run-estimate in defang-mvp; DefangLabs/defang-mvp#3191 makes its capture-output: true explicit. Merge that PR first — it is a no-op until this PR lands.
• COMPOSE_FILE: exported once (colon-joined) in the env-setup step, next to DEFANG_STACK and COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME. All three -f loops are gone. The CLI reads it via compose-go's cli.WithConfigFileEnv. The conversion handles both space- and newline-separated compose-files (the test workflow uses a multiline list). Note: like the other exported vars, COMPOSE_FILE stays set for later steps of the caller's job.
• CodeRabbit's three findings are fixed (pipefail, single-JSON fallback, endpoint-gated table).

CI is green, and the test run shows the new path working: COMPOSE_FILE=compose.yaml:compose.prod.yaml from the multiline input, and the auto-summary step ran on the dry-run deploy. I updated the PR description to match the new defaults.

Heads-up for release: both default flips change behavior for @main consumers on merge, and for tag users at the next release.