Add environment name to a context available within a step

[aoggz]

Describe the enhancement

Include job.<job_id>.environment (if just name provided) or job.<job_id>.environment.name in a context available to a step, if set.

Code Snippet

Something like what's below would be great:

jobs:
  deploy-dev:
    environment: dev
    steps:
      - name: deploy
        uses: ./.github/actions/deploy-action
        with:
          environment: ${{job.environment_name}}

Additional information

It would be great if I could grab the desired name of the environment within a job that has the environment object set. I'm retrieving this by parsing the workflow YAML file based with help from the GITHUB_WORKFLOW and GITHUB_JOB environment variables, but this isn't ideal and introduces unneeded complexity (i.e. if the top-level name property within the workflow is set, then I have to dig within each YAML and check the name of the workflow).

I'm assuming that only the name would be available (if at all), since we can set the environment URL based on outputs from within a step.

[aoggz]

Some more updates...it looks like my existing approach may be incompatible with what's coming with Reusable workflows, too. For me, that makes this request even more helpful. I'm really excited to start to abstract some workflow boilerplate 😄 !

[ethomson]

This seems like a useful addition, thanks. I'll put this on our backlog for the future.