Many people are using private registries like AWS CodeArtifact to store critical code and distribute it within a controlled domain. Dependabot is a GitHub integrated tool that allows for dependency analysis with automatic pull requests and alerts for repositories. As the name suggests, private registries are only allowed to be accessed by people and systems that have access.

Until recently, Dependabot's only option to access private registries was to add secrets through the UI. Now they offer additional API operations for programmatically adding secrets to Dependabot.

This project aims to become a tool for people who are using AWS CodeArtifact and want to use Dependabot with it. The codeartifact-dependabot-sync enables you to automatically update your secret every 10 hours.

The following instructions show how to setup the environment to run this code within a given environment.

• A fresh install of Golang 1.17. Please follow these instructions from the official documentation

  foo@bar:~$ go version
  go version go1.17.6 darwin/amd64

• A GitHub App that has access to Dependabot Secrets for your Repo or Organization. Official docs

1. clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/TierMobility/codeartifact-dependabot-sync
   
   cd codeartifact-dependabot-sync

2. (optional) get all modules

   export GO111MODULE=on
   go get .

3. Build it

   GO111MODULE=on go build . -o /codeartifact-dependabot-sync

the tool runs indefinitely until the process is killed

• Setup the following data:

  Key	Description
  CODEARTIFACT_DOMAIN_OWNER	Owner (AWS acc) for the AWS CodeArtifact domain. Also used when using CodeArtifact with AWS Cli
  CODEARTIFACT_DURATION	Duration of the AWS CodeArtifact authToken.
  CODEARTIFACT_DOMAIN	AWS CodeArtifact Domain for which access is required. Also used when using CodeArtifact with AWS Cli
  GITHUB_PRIVATE_KEY	GitHub secret for GitHub App authentication
  DEPENDABOT_OWNER	Owner of the GitHub organization
  DEPENDABOT_ORG	The GitHub organization for which the secret should be created
  GITHUB_APP_ID	The ID of the GitHub App used for authentication

• Using env variables

  1. Setup environment variables regarding point 1 from installation

  2. ./codeartifact-dependabot-sync

• Using flags

  1. The flags for the tool are the same as demonstrated in point 1 from installation.

     # Get all the flags and their descriptions:
     ./codeartifact-dependabot-sync -h
     
     # run it with flag data
     ./codeartifact-dependabot-sync -DEPENDABOT-ORG=exampleOrg -CODEARTIFACT_OWNER=exampleOwner ...