This is a simple GitHub Action that redeploys services hosted on Render's cloud platform.

This action could be useful in CI/CD pipelines that release Docker images and, as part of the pipeline, it's required to redeploy the services that are using those images so that they can run the latest versions.

First, make sure to define the necessary input for the Action. You'd have to provide a Render API key (for authentication with their APIs) and a Render service ID (used to identify the service you want to redeploy).

To do this, you can leverage GitHub secrets and variables. In short, go to your repository's Settings tab and add the necessary secrets and variables under Secrets and variables then Actions.

Add the following deploy job in your Action.

deploy:
  # Assuming the `docker-images` job builds the Docker images,
  # we define a dependency on it.
  needs: docker-images 

  runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  steps:
    - name: Deploy to Render
      uses: qbaware/render-redeploy-action@v0
      with:
        render-api-key: ${{ secrets.RENDER_API_KEY }}
        render-service-id: ${{ env.RENDER_SERVICE_ID }}