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Veracode Profile Sandboxes Helper

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A set of actions and activities to manage sandboxes in the context of a workflow processes
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Veracode Sandboxes Helper

An Action to handle Sandboxes mainly as a set of clean-up activities such as:

  • Deleting a sandbox
  • Delete Multiple Sandboxes
  • Promoting Sandbox scan to Policy Scan
    • with or without deleting the sandbox

Inputs

❗ You will need to provide API credentials as environment variables. (See examples below)

activity

Required - The name of the activity to perform

Available options value:

Value Details
remove-sandbox Remove/Delete a sandbox
promote-latest-scan Promote the latest Sandbox scan to a Policy
clean Delete multiple dated sandboxes based on recent activity

app-name

Required - The Veracode Application Profile name

sandbox-name

Required - The sandbox name

delete-on-promote

Optional - Only works with activity: "promote-latest-scan" activity and give you the option to specify if you want the Sandbox to be deleted after the last scan is promoted to a Policy Scan

Value Details
"false" Default - Do not delete the Sandbox
"true" Delete the Sandbox after promoting the latest scan

clean-amount

Optional - The number of dated sandboxes to delete. The query of sandboxes will target Sandboxes which their modified date is most dated.

Value Details
1 Default - Delete a single Sandbox
Any number from 1-25 Number of sandboxes to delete

clean-modified-before

Optional - The attribute will instruct the clean step to only look for sandboxes which their modified date is older than the amount of days given as the a value. :exclamation: Only works in conjunction with the clean activity

Value Details
0 Default - Any sandbox
Any other number - X Can only delete sandboxes which last modified at least X days ago

Examples

Delete a Sandbox

For deleting a sandbox you can simply add the following step to your workflow job.

on: 
  delete: # a trigger for when a Branch is deleted
    
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  veracode-sandbox-task:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Clean branch Sandbox

    steps:

      ... # your other job steps

      - name: Delete Sandbox
        env:
          VERACODE_API_ID: '${{ secrets.VERACODE_API_ID }}'
          VERACODE_API_SECRET: '${{ secrets.VERACODE_API_SECRET }}'
        uses: veracode/veracode-sandboxes-helper@v1.0.0
        with:
          activity: "remove-sandbox"
          app-name: "<YOUR VERACODE APPLICATION NAME>"
          # "${{ github.ref }}" - current branch on push triggers
          # or "${{ github.event.pull_request.head.ref }}" - post pull request
          sandbox-name: "<SANDBOX_NAME>" 
      

Delete Multiple Sandboxes

Delete up to two most dated Sandboxes modified at least 14 days ago.

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  
  schedule:
    - cron: 30 14 * * *

jobs:
  veracode-sandbox-maintenance-task:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Pull Request Review Submitted

    steps:

      ... # your other job steps

      - name: Delete old unused Sandboxes
        env:
          VERACODE_API_ID: '${{ secrets.VERACODE_API_ID }}'
          VERACODE_API_SECRET: '${{ secrets.VERACODE_API_SECRET }}'
        uses: veracode/veracode-sandboxes-helper@v1.0.0
        with:
          activity: "clean"
          app-name: "<YOUR VERACODE APPLICATION NAME>"
          clean-amount: "2"
          clean-modified-before: "14" 
      

Promote Sandbox

For promoting a scan from Sandbox to a Policy you can use the following

on: 
  pull_request_review: # a trigger when a Pull Request Review submitted
    types: [submitted]
        
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  veracode-sandbox-task:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Pull Request Review Submitted

    steps:

      ... # your other job steps

      - name: Promote Scan on Approval
        # run only if the pull request got approved
        if: ${{ github.event.review.state == 'approved' }}
        env:
          VERACODE_API_ID: '${{ secrets.VERACODE_API_ID }}'
          VERACODE_API_SECRET: '${{ secrets.VERACODE_API_SECRET }}'
        uses: veracode/veracode-sandboxes-helper@v1.0.0 
        with:
          activity: "promote-latest-scan"
          app-name: "<YOUR VERACODE APPLICATION NAME>"
          sandbox-name: "<SANDBOX_NAME>" # "${{ github.event.pull_request.head.ref }}"
          delete-on-promote: true # Optional: also Deleting the Sandbox 
      

Veracode Profile Sandboxes Helper is not certified by GitHub. It is provided by a third-party and is governed by separate terms of service, privacy policy, and support documentation.

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A set of actions and activities to manage sandboxes in the context of a workflow processes
v1.0.0
Latest

Verified

GitHub has manually verified the creator of the action as an official partner organization. For more info see About badges in GitHub Marketplace.

Veracode Profile Sandboxes Helper is not certified by GitHub. It is provided by a third-party and is governed by separate terms of service, privacy policy, and support documentation.