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GitHub Actions

Automate, customize, and execute your software development workflows right in your repository with GitHub Actions. You can discover, create, and share actions to perform any job you'd like, including CI/CD, and combine actions in a completely customized workflow.

Quickstart Overview

Guides

Learn GitHub Actions→

Whether you are new to GitHub Actions or interested in learning all they have to offer, this guide will help you use GitHub Actions to accelerate your application development workflows.

About continuous integration→

You can create custom continuous integration (CI) workflows directly in your GitHub repository with GitHub Actions.

Deploying with GitHub Actions→

Learn how to control deployments with features like environments and concurrency.

About packaging with GitHub Actions→

You can set up workflows in GitHub Actions to produce packages and upload them to GitHub Packages or another package hosting provider.

About monitoring and troubleshooting→

You can use the tools in GitHub Actions to monitor and debug your workflows.

Popular

Workflow syntax for GitHub Actions→

Learn GitHub Actions→

Events that trigger workflows→

Contexts→

Expressions→

Environment variables→

Encrypted secrets→

What's new

Workflows triggered by Dependabot receive dependabot secrets→

API support for managing labels of Actions self-hosted runners→

Reusable workflows are generally available→

Code examples

Example services

Example workflows using service containers

service containers

Declaratively setup GitHub Labels

GitHub Action to declaratively setup labels across repos

Declaratively sync GitHub labels

GitHub Action to sync GitHub labels in the declarative way

Add releases to GitHub

Publish GitHub releases in an action

releasespublishing

Publish a docker image to Dockerhub

A GitHub Action used to build and publish Docker images

dockerpublishingbuild

Create an issue using content from a file

A GitHub action to create an issue using content from a file

Guides

Using workflow templates

GitHub provides workflow templates for a variety of languages and tooling.

Publishing Node.js packages

You can publish Node.js packages to a registry as part of your continuous integration (CI) workflow.

Building and testing PowerShell

You can create a continuous integration (CI) workflow to build and test your PowerShell project.

All GitHub Actions docs

Learn GitHub Actions

Understanding GitHub Actions

Finding and customizing actions

Essential features of GitHub Actions

Managing complex workflows

Sharing workflows, secrets, and runners with your organization

Managing workflow runs

Manually running a workflow

Re-running workflows and jobs

Canceling a workflow

Approving workflow runs from public forks

Reviewing deployments

Automating builds and tests

About continuous integration

Building and testing Java with Ant

Building and testing Java with Gradle

Building and testing Java with Maven

Building and testing .NET

Deployment

About deployments • 2 articles

Deploying to your cloud provider • 3 articles

Security hardening your deployments • 7 articles

Targeting different environments • 1 articles

Managing your deployments • 1 articles

Using containerized services

About service containers

Creating PostgreSQL service containers

Creating Redis service containers

Publishing packages

About packaging with GitHub Actions

Publishing Docker images

Publishing Java packages with Gradle

Publishing Java packages with Maven

Publishing Node.js packages

Managing issues and pull requests

Using GitHub Actions for project management

Adding labels to issues

Closing inactive issues

Commenting on an issue when a label is added

Moving assigned issues on project boards

Migrating to GitHub Actions

Migrating from Azure Pipelines to GitHub Actions

Migrating from CircleCI to GitHub Actions

Migrating from GitLab CI/CD to GitHub Actions

Migrating from Jenkins to GitHub Actions

Migrating from Travis CI to GitHub Actions

Monitoring and troubleshooting workflows

About monitoring and troubleshooting

Using the visualization graph

Adding a workflow status badge

Viewing workflow run history

Viewing job execution time

Using GitHub-hosted runners

About GitHub-hosted runners

Customizing GitHub-hosted runners

Hosting your own runners

About self-hosted runners

Adding self-hosted runners

Autoscaling with self-hosted runners

Configuring the self-hosted runner application as a service

Using a proxy server with self-hosted runners

Security guides

Security hardening for GitHub Actions

Encrypted secrets

Automatic token authentication

Advanced guides

Caching dependencies to speed up workflows

Storing workflow data as artifacts

Using GitHub CLI in workflows

Creating actions

About custom actions

Creating a Docker container action

Creating a JavaScript action

Creating a composite action

Metadata syntax for GitHub Actions

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