chore: upgrade action runtime to Node 24

[John C. Bland II (johncblandii)]

what

• Change the action runtime from node20 to node24 in action.yml
• Bump the workflow pins to Node 24 runtimes, SHA-pinned with precise version comments:
  • actions/checkout@v4 → @3d3c42e5... # v7.0.1
  • actions/setup-node@v3/@v4 → @82076278... # v7.0.0
  • aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4 → @e6de0542... # v6.2.3 — majors crossed:
    v5+ throws on non-YAML-1.2 booleans; the step passes only role-to-assume, aws-region, and
    role-session-name (no boolean inputs), so no input changes were needed
• Replace validate-codeowners.yml with the org-standard shared-codeowners.yml@main caller
  (permissions: contents: read, secrets: inherit) — the previous inline validator used the
  removed PUBLIC_REPO_ACCESS_TOKEN

verification — what ran and what did not

• Every new SHA was verified against its upstream tag, and each bumped version's action.yml
  declares runs.using: node24
• The committed dist/ bundle is unchanged (no source changes) and was smoke-tested locally under
  Node 24.0.2 (loads and executes; fails only on absent inputs, as expected)
• The repo's end-to-end integration tests did NOT run on this PR — github-action / CI / test
  reports skipping. An earlier revision of this body cited them as evidence; that was wrong.
  Their dispatch harness appears gated on credentials that no longer exist (the same dead
  PUBLIC_REPO_ACCESS_TOKEN family removed from the codeowners workflow above), which predates
  this PR and is worth a maintainer look — until then, runtime verification rests on the local
  smoke test plus consumers' own CI

why

• GitHub is deprecating the Node 20 runtime; actions declaring runs.using: node20 emit a
  deprecation warning for every consumer and are already being force-migrated to Node 24

references

• https://github.blog/changelog/2025-09-19-deprecation-of-node-20-on-github-actions-runners/

still on legacy runtimes (deliberately not bumped)

• azure/login@v1 (node16) — latest release (v2) is still node20; no node24 version exists to pin

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Updates this GitHub Action’s declared runtime to match GitHub Actions runner deprecation/migration plans by switching the action metadata from Node 20 to Node 24.

Changes:

• Update runs.using in action.yml from node20 to node24.

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[John C. Bland II (johncblandii)]

Note: the validate-codeowners failure is pre-existing (Valid Owner Checker cannot query cloudposse org teams — token authorization issue affecting all PRs in this repo), unrelated to the runtime bump.

[John C. Bland II (johncblandii)]

Phase-2 follow-up now that cloudposse/.github#261 is merged: workflow pins bumped to Node 24 runtimes, SHA-pinned (checkout # v7.0.1, setup-node # v7.0.0, configure-aws-credentials # v6.2.3 — no boolean inputs in use, so the v5+ strict-boolean change doesn't bite). Still on legacy: azure/login@v1 (node16; latest v2 is only node20 — no node24 release to pin).

[Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) (osterman)]

The change itself is probably fine — all the SHA pins resolve to their genuine upstream tags and I found nothing malicious. But two things need fixing before this merges.

1. The description doesn't match the diff.

The body is one line: "Change the action runtime from node20 to node24 in action.yml." The diff touches 3 files (+16/−31) and includes a rewrite of validate-codeowners.yml to the shared reusable workflow plus three major-version bumps in build-and-test.yml — most notably aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials v4 → v6.2.3, on a workflow that assumes AWS credentials.

That's disclosed only in follow-up comments. Anyone reviewing from the description, or reading the merge commit later, misses the OIDC action major bump entirely. Please update the body to describe what actually landed.

2. The stated CI evidence didn't happen.

The body claims "this repo's integration tests exercise the bundle end-to-end via uses: ./ on this PR, now running on Node 24." On head SHA 9dd9676, build-and-test.yml produced no check runs at all — check-dist, unit tests and both integration suites never ran, and get_status returns zero statuses. github-action / CI / test is skipped. So the node24 declaration is currently backed by nothing but a local smoke test.

I think I know why: build-and-test.yml still references secrets.PUBLIC_REPO_ACCESS_TOKEN as the GITHUB_TOKEN env for both AWS integration steps — and per your own finding in cloudposse/github-action-atmos-terraform-drift-detection#3178, that secret no longer exists org-wide. If that's it, the integration tests are broken independently of this PR, which is worth fixing here rather than merging past it.

Two smaller items while you're in there:

• check-dist is pinned to node-version: 20.x, so the committed dist/ bundle gets validated under Node 20 while the action now declares Node 24. Worth aligning.
• azure/login@v1 (node16) is the one remaining mutable third-party ref, in a workflow holding Azure credentials. You acknowledged it — but given this PR's whole premise is pinning, it stands out.

Happy to re-review as soon as the body is accurate and there's a green run that actually exercises the bundle.

[John C. Bland II (johncblandii)]

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) (@osterman) — body rewritten per your review. Both points were right: it omitted the configure-aws-credentials v4→v6 major (added later in the Phase-2 pass; now documented with the strict-boolean analysis — the step passes no boolean inputs, so no changes were needed), and the integration-test claim was wrong — github-action / CI / test is skipping on this PR, so those tests never ran. The body now states plainly what verification actually happened (SHA↔tag checks, runtime declarations, local Node 24 smoke test) and flags the gated test harness — consistent with your dead-PUBLIC_REPO_ACCESS_TOKEN theory — as a pre-existing maintainer item.

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