Incorporating UEC Workflow and Action Library

[gdcNHS]

What is the problem this feature will solve?

As part of the UEC DoS rewrite, we have amassed a pretty large catalogue of Github workflows and actions for various common tasks (code quality, linting, IaC operations, etc.)

See https://github.com/NHSDigital/uec-dos-service-management/

After discussion with @stefaniuk, we deduced it may be worthwhile to try and fold these into the template somehow.

What is the feature that you are proposing to solve the problem?

The proposal is not necessarily to combine all of these workflows into the template repository per se (although some of the more lightweight actions might be quick wins), but perhaps to create something more like an internal marketplace of workflows and actions (each versioned in their own repository), which then may be consumed.

There may also be some overlap between this and the Coyote work that is ongoing.

What alternatives have you considered?

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[MatMoore]

Marketplace of actions sounds like a good way to go 👍🏻

Ideally I'd like to see the existing actions/scripts in this template folded into that kind of approach, as having copies of the same code in every repo is very difficult to maintain.

We had something similar at the MOJ and it worked well for us: https://github.com/ministryofjustice/github-actions