If you want to run super-linter outside GitHub Actions, you need a container runtime engine to run the super-linter container image.
You can run the container locally with the following configuration options to run your code:
docker run \
-e LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG \
-e RUN_LOCAL=true \
-v /path/to/local/codebase:/tmp/lint \
--rm \
ghcr.io/super-linter/super-linter:latest
This example uses the latest
container image version. If you're trying to reproduce
an issue, or running super-linter as part of your CI pipeline, we recommend that
you refer to a specific version instead.
Notes:
- To run against a single file you can use:
docker run -e RUN_LOCAL=true -e USE_FIND_ALGORITHM=true -v /path/to/local/codebase/file:/tmp/lint/file ghcr.io/super-linter/super-linter
- You need to pass the
RUN_LOCAL
option to bypass some of the GitHub Actions checks, as well as the mapping of your local codebase to/tmp/lint
. - If you want to override the
/tmp/lint
folder, you can set theDEFAULT_WORKSPACE
environment variable to point to the folder you'd prefer to scan. - You can add as many configuration options as needed. Configuration options are documented in the README.
Check out this article
Check out this snippet and this Guided Exploration: GitLab CI CD Extension for Super-Linter
This repository provides a DevContainer for remote development.
To avoid duplication if you run super-linter both locally and in other environements, such as CI, you can define configuration options once, and load them accordingly:
-
Create a configuration file for super-linter
super-linter.env
. For example:VALIDATE_ALL_CODEBASE=true
-
Load the super-linter configuration file when running outside GitHub Actions:
docker run --rm \ -e RUN_LOCAL=true \ --env-file ".github/super-linter.env" \ -v "$(pwd)":/tmp/lint \ ghcr.io/super-linter/super-linter:latest
-
Load the super-linter configuration file when running in GitHub Actions by adding the following step to the GitHub Actions workflow that runs super-linter, after checking out your repository and before running super-linter:
- name: Load super-linter configuration run: cat .github/super-linter.env >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
To run the build and test process locally, do the following:
-
Create a file to store the personal access token on your machine:
touch .github-personal-access-token
The file to store the personal access token is ignored by Git.
-
Run the build process:
make
To avoid invalidating the build cache, and reuse it, you can set build metadata
to arbitrary values before running make
:
BUILD_DATE=2023-12-12T09:32:05Z \
BUILD_REVISION=83c16f63caa9d432df4519efb4c58a56e2190bd6 \
BUILD_VERSION=83c16f63caa9d432df4519efb4c58a56e2190bd6 \
make
You can run the test suite against an arbitrary super-linter container image.
Here is an example that runs the test suite against the v5.4.3
container
image version.
CONTAINER_IMAGE_ID="ghcr.io/super-linter/super-linter:v5.4.3" \
BUILD_DATE="2023-10-17T17:00:53Z" \
BUILD_REVISION=b0d1acee1f8050d1684a28ddbf8315f81d084fe9 \
BUILD_VERSION=b0d1acee1f8050d1684a28ddbf8315f81d084fe9 \
make docker-pull test
Initialize the BUILD_DATE
, BUILD_REVISION
, and BUILD_VERSION
variables
with the values for that specific container image version. You can get these
values from the build log for that version.
To get the list of the available Make
targets, run the following command:
make help