GitHub Actions

wikipedia:Github Actions (Oct 2018) allows building continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines for testing, releasing and deploying software without the use of third-party websites/platforms.

• https://github.com/actions, https://docs.github.com/en/actions
• Configuration: .github/workflows/
• Images: ghcr.io/actions/actions-runner:latest

Features:

• Can be enabled, disabled or restricted to specific actions.
• Self hosted runners can be configured

• Python: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/guides/building-and-testing-python

name:

on:

workflow_dispatch:

jobs:

schedule:

run:

uses:

uses: actions/checkout@v4

uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3

uses: actions/setup-java@v2

uses: actions/setup-node@v3

uses: actions/setup-python@v2

uses: actions/setup-node@v2

uses: pre-commit/[email protected]

uses: actions/cache@v2

uses: serverless/github-action@master

hashicorp/setup-terraform

if:

runs-on:

steps:

deploy:

env:

needs:

GitHub Actions: template:

Execute GitHub Actions manually

• https://docs.github.com/en/actions/managing-workflow-runs/manually-running-a-workflow

• gh workflow run CI --ref your-branch

Activities

• Read https://github.com/github/actions-cheat-sheet/blob/master/actions-cheat-sheet.adoc
• Read https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions
• Read GitHub Actions Quickstart https://docs.github.com/en/actions/quickstart
• Read stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/github-actions?tab=Votes
• Configure a GitHub self hosted runner
• Managing GitHub Actions settings for a repository

Changelog / announcements

• Aug 2021 macOS 11 available https://github.blog/changelog/2021-08-16-github-actions-macos-11-big-sur-is-generally-available-on-github-hosted-runners/. Related: runs-on:

Related terms

• AWS CloudFormation "Deploy CloudFormation Stack" Action for GitHub Actions
• Azure Pipelines: task:
• gh actions
• Ubuntu 2-core, Windows 2-core, macOS 3-core
• GitHub Actions variables: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/variables
• Error: Process completed with exit code 255.
• Waiting for a runner to pick up this job
• GitHub Actions helm deployments
• GitHub Desktop
• SLSA

See also

• gh [ auth | repo | secret | issue | workflow | webhook | gh environment | actions | run ] gh auth login, gh pr create, gh --help
• GitHub Actions, act, .github/workflows/, ~/actions-runner/, svc.sh, deploy:, run:, runs-on:, uses:, steps:, jobs:, on:, env:, uses:, script:, continue-on-error:, template:, aws-actions, inputs:, GITHUB_ENV, needs:, github., GitHub runner, my-docker-publish.yml, GitHub Actions variables, GitHub Actions contexts, GitHub Actions Importer, If:, SLSA, Actions Runner Controller (ARC), $GITHUB OUTPUT, notify:, Marketplace, GITHUB_TOKEN

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/16/github-launches-actions-its-workflow-automation-tool/

https://github.blog/2018-10-16-future-of-software/

https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/enabling-features-for-your-repository/managing-github-actions-settings-for-a-repository#allowing-specific-actions-to-run

https://github.com/actions/setup-java

https://github.com/actions/setup-node