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GitHub Actions

A practical guide to GitHub Actions: workflows, triggers, jobs, steps and runners, using marketplace actions, matrix builds, caching, artifacts, secrets and environments, reusable workflows, and the security settings every repository should have.

CodexBash, , 5 min read

GitHub Actions is the automation system built into GitHub. It runs scripts in response to events in your repository: a push, a pull request, a release, a schedule or a button press. Most teams use it for CI/CD, testing and deploying code, but it also labels issues, publishes packages, updates dependencies and runs nightly jobs. Our CI/CD article showed one pipeline; this guide explains the building blocks properly, so you can write and debug workflows of your own.

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