This repository used for:

• Workflow templates (repo must be named .github)
• Required workflows (required workflow files must be located in .github/workflows folder)

GitHub has strict naming requirements for Workflow templates and Required workflow files and this is a good compromise to maintain both features in one place. It is expected that this repo structure will be located in every GitHub Oragnisation where Shift-Left will be rolled out.

Workflow templates support also branch name interpolation and the template can be defined as follows:

  push:
    branches: [ $default-branch ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ $default-branch ]

$default-branch is interpolated at the time of including workflow template in the target repository.

Required workflows will reference this repository to inject the appropriate workflows into the subject repository.