I have a repo I created whose sole purpose is to create a Docker container action that connects to a database (Snowflake) and outputs some data.

I drew heavily from this repo and was able to recreate locally in Docker.

Part of the set up uses a config file. Anyone in our org using this repo will need their own config file. On the repo linked above you can see this in the connection-test.sh script where row 5 uses a custom config file.

I’m trying to figure out the equivalent of doing this with gh actions where I have a repo that contains the base image or action, and then in another repo I want to checkout the snowsql action and then when run use a custom config file that I have in my repo that uses the action.

• ourorg/snowsql # the generic docker container action repo
• ourorg/my-project-that-uses-snowsql

When I set this up just using Docker on local I have a docker-compose file of the form:

volumes:
      - ./ssql/config:/home/snowflake/.snowsql/config

Is there an equivalent or ‘right’ way to do this using a custom docker action?

Repo ourorg/my-project-that-uses-snowsql.github/workflows/main.yml looks like this:

on: [push]
jobs:

ssql_job:

runs-on: ubuntu-latest

name: Build ssql image

steps:

- name: Checkout # To use this repository's private action, you must check out the repository

uses: actions/checkout

with: # Aside, never done this before, don't know if it's right

repository: ourorg/ds-ssql-gh-action

ref: main

- name: Build

uses: ./ # Uses an action in the root directory

If this repo ourorg/ds-ssql-gh-action has a file ./config and after I checkout ourorg/ds-ssql-gh-action I’d like to run the action / container but before doing so I want to add ourorg/my-project-that-uses-snowsql/config inside the action / container at /home/snowflake/.snowsql/config. LIke with a volume mount in docker-compose.

How can I do this?