Yikes WP Engine Deploy

An action to deploy your repository to a WP Engine site via git. Read more about WP Engine's git deployment support.

Original action forked from @campaignupgrade who forked from @jovrtn! Thanks y'all!

Example Production Github Action Deploy

name: YIKES, Inc. CI Deploy Master

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-18.04
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - run: |
          git fetch --prune --unshallow

    - name: GitHub Action for WP Engine Git Deployment
      uses: yikesinc/github-action-wpengine-git-deploy@master
      env:
        WPENGINE_SITE_NAME: 'yikesinc' # your wp engine site name. example: yikesinc.wpengine.com would be yikesinc
        LOCAL_BRANCH: 'master' # branch that you're pushing too on WP Engine.
        WP_ENGINE_ENV: 'production' # environment you're pushing too. Use this for staging on legacy staging.
        WPENGINE_SSH_KEY_PRIVATE: ${{ secrets.WPENGINE_SSH_KEY_PRIVATE }}
        WPENGINE_SSH_KEY_PUBLIC: ${{ secrets.WPENGINE_SSH_KEY_PUBLIC }}

Example Legacy Staging Github Action Deploy

name: YIKES, Inc. CI Deploy Staging
# Controls when the action will run. Triggers the workflow on push or pull request
# events but only for the master branch
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - staging

# A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-18.04
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - run: |
          git fetch --prune --unshallow

    - name: GitHub Action for WP Engine Git Deployment
      uses: yikesinc/github-action-wpengine-git-deploy@master
      env:
        WPENGINE_SITE_NAME: 'yikesinc'
        LOCAL_BRANCH: 'staging'
        WP_ENGINE_ENV: 'staging'
        WPENGINE_SSH_KEY_PRIVATE: ${{ secrets.WPENGINE_SSH_KEY_PRIVATE }}
        WPENGINE_SSH_KEY_PUBLIC: ${{ secrets.WPENGINE_SSH_KEY_PUBLIC }}

Environment Variables & Secrets

Required

Name	Type	Usage
WPENGINE_SITE_NAME	Environment Variable	The name of the WP Engine site you want to deploy to.
WPENGINE_SSH_KEY_PRIVATE	Secret	Private SSH key of your WP Engine git deploy user. See below for SSH key usage.
WPENGINE_SSH_KEY_PUBLIC	Secret	Public SSH key of your WP Engine git deploy user. See below for SSH key usage.
WPENGINE_ENV	Environment Variable	Defaults to production. You shouldn't need to change this, but if you're using WP Engine's legacy staging, you can override the default and set to staging if needed.
LOCAL_BRANCH	Environment Variable	Set which branch in your repository you'd like to push to WP Engine. Defaults to master.

Further reading

• Defining environment variables in GitHub Actions
• Storing secrets in GitHub repositories

Setting up your SSH keys

1. Generate a new SSH key pair as a special deploy key. The simplest method is to generate a key pair with a blank passphrase, which creates an unencrypted private key.
2. Store your public and private keys in your GitHub repository as new 'Secrets' (under your repository settings), using the names WPENGINE_SSH_KEY_PRIVATE and WPENGINE_SSH_KEY_PUBLIC respectively. In theory, this replaces the need for encryption on the key itself, since GitHub repository secrets are encrypted by default.
3. Add the public key to your target WP Engine environment.
4. Per the WP Engine documentation, it takes about 30-45 minutes for the new SSH key to become active.