error when using role-to-assume

[ebenezen]

As of 8/3/2020, we are seeing below error when using

##[error]Missing required environment value. Are you running in GitHub Actions?

- name: Configure AWS Credentials
  uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v1
  with:
    aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
    aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
    aws-region: ${{ env.G_AWS_REGION }}
    role-to-assume: arn:aws:iam::${{ env.G_AWS_ACCOUNT_ID }}:${{ env.G_ROLE_ASSUME }}
    role-duration-seconds: 1200

to debug further, when we printed all the env variables ( GITHUB_REPOSITORY, GITHUB_WORKFLOW, GITHUB_ACTION, GITHUB_ACTOR, GITHUB_REF, GITHUB_SHA ) , we noticed GITHUB_ACTION to be empty.

Appreciate any help to get this fixed.

[shun-tak]

this also happens in my env

[sauln]

Looks to be related to an issue with github actions themselves: actions/runner/issues/635

A possible fix is to use GITHUB_ACTIONS instead of GITHUB_ACTION as seen in codecov/codecov-bash/pull/341

[davidjdixon]

https://github.community/t/github-action-environment-variable-missing-breaking-issue/125913

There was a bug in a recent runner rollout: https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/tag/v2.272.0. We progressively roll runner updates to customers so some customers were impacted by this update (it broke GITHUB_ACTION context, as you saw). We are rolling it back now and all customers should be fixed by 10 am EST.
We apologize for the inconvenience and the issue here and have added some validation to the runner to make sure we have future coverage if the context is impacted before it rolls out to customers.

[piradeepk]

@ebenezen it looks like the release that causes this issue has been rolled back by Github. Wanted to confirm that this is no longer a problem for you before I close this issue.

[sauln]

Everything works for me now 👍

[ebenezen]

Hi, yes, everything works now after GitHub made changes at their end. Thanks everyone for your support.