Question

A workflow has two jobs. The first job, named 'build', generates a version string that the second job, named 'deploy', must reference. The 'deploy' job includes 'needs: build'. Inside the 'build' job, a step with id 'meta' writes the value using 'echo "version=1.4.2" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"'. To make this value available to the 'deploy' job, what must also be configured?

Accepted Answer

Add an 'outputs' map at the 'build' job level mapping a key to '${{ steps.meta.outputs.version }}', then reference it in 'deploy' as '${{ needs.build.outputs.<key> }}'.

Answer

Reference the value directly in 'deploy' as '${{ steps.meta.outputs.version }}' since step outputs are global across jobs.

Answer

Write the value to '$GITHUB_ENV' in 'build' so the environment variable persists into the 'deploy' job automatically.

Answer

Reference the value in 'deploy' as '${{ jobs.build.steps.meta.outputs.version }}' using the jobs context.