norbuxN
Convex Community•2y ago•
10 replies
norbux

Hello,

I would like to use github actions to deploy to dev, I normally do it from the cli like 
npx convex dev
. I have created a deployment key in the Convex dashboard for both dev and production and added those as secrets in github.

In my github workflow I am adding the key into an env variable like this:

env:
  CONVEX_DEPLOY_KEY: "${{ secrets.CONVEX_DEPLOY_KEY_DEV }}"


Then, in the job steps I am doing this:

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
      - run: npm install convex dotenv
      - run: export CONVEX_DEPLOY_KEY="$CONVEX_DEPLOY_KEY"
      - run: npx convex dev

I can see in the action output that the convex key shows obfuscated. When it gets to the point of running 
npx convex dev
 it fails because Convex expects a user interaction of visiting a URL to authorize instead of using the environment 
CONVEX_DEPLOY_KEY
.

I'm surely doing something wrong. Does anyone has a hint?
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