Getting started#

The documentation isn’t ready yet so I suggest you going through the How-to create a GitHub Bot tutorial which should give you basic understanding of GitHub Apps and how to write them with octomachinery.

Runtime pre-requisites#

  • Python 3.7+ as octomachinery relies on contextvars which doesn’t have a backport.

  • GitHub App credentials and GitHub Action events are supplied via environment variables. They are also loaded from a .env file if it exists in a development environment.

    Warning

    Be aware that some tools in your environment may conflict with autoloading vars from a .env file. It is recommended to disable those. One example of such tool is Pipenv.

    For the production deployments, please use a way of supplying env vars via tools provided by the application orchestration software of your choice.