Migrate Travis based checks to Github Actions (#8329)

* Migrate Travis based checks to Github Actions

* Remove Gitlab CI config

* Remove ./build/build.sh and use simple shell to do consistency checks on Dashbaord JS

* Install prereq deps

* Rename job

* Fix brain fart momemt

* Split Dashboard checks into a separate job

4 files changed, 39 insertions, 56 deletions

diff --git a/.github/workflows/checks.yml b/.github/workflows/checks.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6e379d12e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/checks.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+---
+name: Checks
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+  pull_request:
+jobs:
+  checksum-checks:
+    name: Checksums
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Git clone repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Run checksum checks on kickstart files
+        env:
+          LOCAL_ONLY: "true"
+        run: |
+          ./tests/installer/checksums.sh
+  dashboard-checks:
+    name: Dashboard
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Git clone repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Install required packages
+        run: |
+          ./packaging/installer/install-required-packages.sh --dont-wait --non-interactive netdata
+      - name: Backup dashboard.js
+        run: |
+          cp web/gui/dashboard.js /tmp/dashboard.js
+      - name: Regenerate dashboard.js
+        run: |
+          autoreconf -ivf
+          ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode
+          make dist
+      - name: Compare generated Dashboard vs. Backed up Dashboard
+        run: |
+          diff -sNrdu /tmp/dashboard.js web/gui/dashboard.js
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 25ece161b4..0000000000
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-stages:
-  - "Code quality, linting, syntax, code style"
-
-job 1:
-  stage: "Code quality, linting, syntax, code style"
-  before_script:
-    - apt-get clean all && apt-get update
-    - apt-get install -y shellcheck
-  script: shellcheck --format=gcc $(find . -name '*.sh.in' -not -iwholename '*.git*')
-
-job 2:
-  stage: "Code quality, linting, syntax, code style"
-  script: ./tests/installer/checksums.sh
-  variables:
-    LOCAL_ONLY: "true"
-
-job 3:
-  stage: "Code quality, linting, syntax, code style"
-  script: cp web/gui/dashboard.js /tmp/dashboard.js && ./build/build.sh && diff /tmp/dashboard.js web/gui/dashboard.js
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index fdb1dceb13..82d5f8ad63 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ notifications:
 #
 stages:
   # Mandatory runs, we always want these executed
-  - name: Code quality, linting, syntax, code style
   - name: Build process
   - name: Artifacts validation
   - name: Artifacts validation on bare OS, stable to current lifecycle checks
@@ -97,22 +96,6 @@ jobs:
   allow_failures:
     - env: ALLOW_SOFT_FAILURE_HERE=true
   include:
-      # Do code quality, syntax checking and other pre-build activities
-    - stage: Code quality, linting, syntax, code style
-
-      name: Run shellchecking on BASH
-      script: shellcheck --format=gcc $(find . -name '*.sh.in' -not -iwholename '*.git*')
-
-      # This falls under same stage defined earlier
-    - name: Run checksum checks on kickstart files
-      script: ./tests/installer/checksums.sh
-      env: LOCAL_ONLY="true"
-
-      # This falls under same stage defined earlier
-    - name: Web Dashboard pre-generated file consistency checks (dashboard.js)
-      script: cp web/gui/dashboard.js /tmp/dashboard.js && ./build/build.sh && diff /tmp/dashboard.js web/gui/dashboard.js
-
-
       # Ensure netdata code builds successfully
     - stage: Build process
 
diff --git a/build/build.sh b/build/build.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 892a7da988..0000000000
--- a/build/build.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-if [ ! -f .gitignore ]; then
-	echo "Run as ./travis/$(basename "$0") from top level directory of git repository"
-	exit 1
-fi
-
-if [ "$IS_CONTAINER" != "" ]; then
-  autoreconf -ivf
-  ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode
-  make dist
-  rm -rf autom4te.cache
-else
-  docker run --rm -it \
-    --env IS_CONTAINER=TRUE \
-    --volume "${PWD}:/project:Z" \
-    --workdir "/project" \
-    netdata/builder:gcc \
-    ./build/build.sh
-fi