Altinn Platform

Altinn Products

To configure or add identity federation (GitHub to Azure), Azure IAM, and handle Terraform state for a product in Altinn, modify the products.yaml file and create a pull request.

Release Please

We have setup Release Please in our repo to automate and simplify the releasing of different artifacts.

Since we have a monorepo we have opted to use the Manifest Driven release-please setup.

This setup consists of two files:

• .release-please-manifest.json that contains the latest release version of all packages
• release-please-config.json that contains the configuration of all the packages handled by release-please

Further documentation about this can be found in the documentation for Manifest Driven release-please

Post-Release Workflow Configuration

We have created our own logic to simplify the dispatching of pipelines after a release is created. This is a fairly simple github script and json file that we have implemented

Control downstream actions after a release using release-please-post-config.json.

Configuration

Map release paths (using Regex) to workflows.

Note: All matching patterns are executed. If a path matches multiple keys, all associated pipelines will be triggered.

Configuration Example

{
  "post-release-hooks": {
    // Example 1: Simple exact match, no inputs required
    "pkg/docs": {
      "dispatch-pipelines": [
        {
          "filename": "deploy-docs.yaml"
        }
      ]
    },
    // Example 2: Regex match (all packages under pkg/) with inputs
    "pkg/.*": {
      "dispatch-pipelines": [
        {
          "filename": "post-release-workflow.yaml",
          "inputs": {
            "tag": "{{tag_name}}",       // Dynamic variable substitution
            "url": "{{release_url}}",
            "environment": "production"  // Static value
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Variable Substitution

Use {{variable_name}} in inputs.

Variable	Description
tag_name	The git tag (e.g., v1.0.0)
release_url	Link to the release on GitHub
release_sha	Commit SHA of the release
path	Path of the released package (e.g., pkg/one)

Extending

To add more variables, update the releaseData object in .github/workflows/release-please.yml:

const releaseData = {
  tag_name: release_info[`${path}--tag_name`],
  // ... add new properties here
};