Adding Security Workflows to GitHub Actions (1/2): codeql workflow (#506)

* adding codeql analysis job

* removing PR and branch

* updating changelog

* removing push trigger

Co-authored-by: Azfaar Qureshi <[email protected]>

Author: AzfaarQureshi

.github/workflows/codeql_analysis.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  schedule:
+    #        ┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
+    #        │  ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
+    #        │  │ ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
+    #        │  │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12 or JAN-DEC)
+    #        │  │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6 or SUN-SAT)
+    #        │  │ │ │ │
+    #        │  │ │ │ │
+    #        │  │ │ │ │
+    #        *  * * * *
+    - cron: '30 1 * * *'
+
+jobs:
+  CodeQL-Build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      # Initializes the CodeQL tools for scanning.
+      - name: Initialize CodeQL
+        uses: github/codeql-action/init@v1
+        with:
+          languages: go
+
+      - name: Autobuild
+        uses: github/codeql-action/autobuild@v1
+
+      - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
+        uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v1

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.htm
 - Add registry link check to `Makefile` and pre-release script. (#446)
 - A new AWS X-Ray ID Generator (#459)
 - Migrate CircleCI jobs to GitHub Actions (#476)
+- Add CodeQL GitHub Action (#506)
+
 ### Fixed
 
 - Fixes the body replacement in otelhttp to not to mutate a nil body. (#484)