github-action: use ephemeral tokens with the required permissions #4225
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Details
What
Use https://github.com/tibdex/github-app-token to generate ephemeral tokens with the required
permissions only
This is the alternative to moving away from finer-grained GitHub tokens and reducing the
cumbersome of rotating them as we do nowadays.
Implementaiton details
We have used the same GitHub action in other places.
If there are any questions, please reach out to the @elastic/observablt-ci