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Use InfluxDB with GitHub Actions for GitOps, CI/CD, and Data Transformation

What's this blog post about?

The article discusses how GitHub Actions can be used with InfluxDB for automating data generation, managing GitOps workflows, and more. It introduces a new InfluxDB GitHub Action that allows users to configure specific versions of InfluxDB or use keywords like "latest" or "nightly." The author also highlights various ways to integrate InfluxDB with GitHub Actions for data validation, conversion, and visualization. They demonstrate how to convert CSV data into line protocol format using the InfluxDB Command Line Tooling and then further convert it into Flux's Annotated CSV format for easier ingestion into an InfluxDB Cloud account. The author also shares their experience of using GitHub Actions internally in various ways and encourages readers to join their Community Slack channel to share their thoughts and ideas.

Company
InfluxData

Date published
Aug. 5, 2021

Author(s)
Russ Savage

Word count
1260

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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