lerna publish not working in GitHub Actions - github-actions

Question

We have a monorepo that we are using Lerna to publish to a private package manager (nexus). When the action runs, it fails with same vague message:
info cli using local version of lerna
lerna notice cli v5.3.0
lerna info ci enabled
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.
This message occurs after github actions tries to run the lerna publish command.
I've tried dozens of variations of installing Lerna globally and locally as well as all sort of variations of flags on my lerna bootstrap and lerna publish commands. I am not sure what to try. Any insights would be appreciated. Below is my worklflow file.
Node: 16.15.1
Lerna: 5.3.0
release.yml
name: 'MyPackage Production Release'
on:
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
version:
required: true
type: choice
description: Which version should be published?
options:
- patch
- minor
- major
tag:
required: true
type: choice
description: Which npm tag should this be published to?
options:
- latest
- next
- test
jobs:
build-my-package:
runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, X64, enterprise]
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout#v3
with:
fetch-depth: 0 #indicates all history for all branches and tags.
- uses: actions/setup-node#v3
with:
node-version: 16.15.1
registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
- name: Configure Identity
run: |
git config user.name github-actions
git config user.email github-actions#github.com
shell: bash
- name: strict SSL
run: |
npm config set cafile my-file.pem
npm config set strict-ssl false
npm config set https-proxy http://proxy.our.proxysite.net:80/
npm config set proxy http://proxy.our.proxysite.net:80/
npm config set NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0
npm config set registry https://registry.npmjs.org/
- name: Install Dependencies
run: |
npm ci --no-package-lock --legacy-peer-deps
lerna bootstrap --ignore-scripts -- --legacy-peer-deps
shell: bash
- name: Prepare Nexus Token
run: |
npm config set registry https://nexus.our.site.net/repository/my-package-repo/
npm config set email myemail#myemail.net
npm config set strictSSL false
npm config set alwaysAuth true
echo //nexus.our.site.net/repository/my-package-repo/:_auth=${{ secrets.NEXUS_BASE64_AUTH }} > .npmrc
npm config set _auth ${{ secrets.NEXUS_BASE64_AUTH }}
shell: bash
- name: Release
run: |
HUSKY_SKIP_HOOKS=1 lerna publish $(echo "${{ github.event.inputs.version }}") --yes --force-publish='*' --dist-tag $(echo "${{ github.event.inputs.tag }}") --conventional-commits --create-release github
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}
GHE_API_URL: ${{ secrets.GHE_API_URL }}
GHE_VERSION: ${{ secrets.GHE_VERSION }}
shell: bash