Further Integrating Google Cloud Build with GitHub Checks API

Question

I have installed Google Cloud Build in a GitHub project of mine and added a Dockerfile and cloudbuild.yaml that I am, so far, happy with. The build passes or fails based on unit tests and lint rules.

However, when I look at the checks tab in GitHub, all I see is this:

Which is very uninformative. I would prefer not to have to go into Google Cloud Build to figure out why the build failed.

I would like to be able to break down Build into Test and Lint subgroups and each of those would have their actual results (or some subset of them).

How can I do that?

Answer 1

Note that the integration with Google Cloud is very recent for GitHub: end of July 2018: that can still evolve as a service.

What you see, for now, is described as:

Cloud Build uses the new Checks API, a better way to get feedback from integration on your code. Once a build is complete, you can see rich status reports, annotated code, and detailed information—all without leaving GitHub.

For now, Google adds:

Insights:

Once the build is complete, details about build times, failures and artifacts are available within GitHub through the Checks API, so you can understand and diagnose build results from within the familiar GitHub environment.
Full logs and history are available in Cloud Build’s UI in the Google Cloud Console.