release: set GH_TOKEN, add debug traces and notify if failures (#2480)

.ci/generate-releases.sh

@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
 #
 set -eo pipefail
 
+if [ -n "$RUNNER_DEBUG" ] ; then
+  set -x
+fi
 
 ###############
 ### FUNCTIONS
@@ -172,7 +175,7 @@ cd releases
   echo "next_patch_8=$next_patch_8"
   echo "edge_8=$edge_8"
   echo "generated=https://github.com/elastic/apm-pipeline-library/actions/workflows/generate-elastic-stack-releases.yml"
-} > releases.properties
+} | tee releases.properties
 
 ### Generate the files for the current releases
 CURRENT_FOLDER=releases/current
@@ -212,3 +215,9 @@ if [ "$(isAvailable "$edge_8")" = "true" ] ; then
   # NOTE: when 9.x happens then `main` will point to 9.
   echo "$edge_8" > "$EDGE_FOLDER/main"
 fi
+
+## 3. debug
+if command -v tree ; then
+  echo "The below files have been generated"
+  tree .
+fi

.github/workflows/generate-elastic-stack-releases.yml

@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ jobs:
           secretId: ${{ secrets.VAULT_SECRET_ID }}
 
       - run: .ci/generate-releases.sh
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
 
       - name: 'Get service account'
         uses: hashicorp/vault-action@v2.7.4
@@ -45,7 +47,6 @@ jobs:
         uses: 'google-github-actions/upload-cloud-storage@v2'
         with:
           path: releases
-          glob: "**/*.json"
           destination: "artifacts-api"
           parent: false
           headers: |-
@@ -54,3 +55,12 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: debug
         run: echo "${{ steps.upload-file.outputs.uploaded }}"
+
+      - if: ${{ failure() }}
+        uses: elastic/apm-pipeline-library/.github/actions/slack-message@current
+        with:
+          url: ${{ secrets.VAULT_ADDR }}
+          roleId: ${{ secrets.VAULT_ROLE_ID }}
+          secretId: ${{ secrets.VAULT_SECRET_ID }}
+          channel: '#observablt-bots'
+          message: ":traffic_cone: generate-elastic-stack-releases failed for `${{ github.repository }}@${{ github.ref_name }}`, @robots-ci please look what's going on <https://github.com/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}|here>"