A fork from oficial Gitleaks Action, provides a simple way to run gitleaks in your CI/CD pipeline.

Sample Workflow

name: gitleaks

on: [push, pull_request, workflow_dispatch]

jobs:
  gitleaks:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Run checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Run Gitleaks
        id: gitleaks
        uses: olxbr/gitleaks-action@main

Using your own .gitleaks.toml configuration

name: gitleaks

on: [push, pull_request, workflow_dispatch]

jobs:
  gitleaks:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Run checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Run Gitleaks
        id: gitleaks
        uses: olxbr/gitleaks-action@main
        with:
          config_path: security/.gitleaks.toml

The config_path is relative to your GitHub Worskpace

Important

You must use actions/checkout before the olxbr/gitleaks-action step. If you are using actions/checkout@v2 you must specify a commit depth other than the default which is 1.

Using a fetch-depth of '0' clones the entire history. If you want to do a more efficient clone, use '2', but that is not guaranteed to work with pull requests.