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GitHub Actions documentation
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.
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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.
Examples
Example workflows that demonstrate the CI/CD features of GitHub Actions.
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
Examples
Events that trigger workflows
Contexts
Expressions
Variables
Encrypted secrets
Guides
Using starter workflows
GitHub provides starter workflows for a variety of languages and tooling.
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Publishing Node.js packages
You can publish Node.js packages to a registry as part of your continuous integration (CI) workflow.
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Building and testing PowerShell
You can create a continuous integration (CI) workflow to build and test your PowerShell project.
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Explore guides
All GitHub Actions docs
Learn GitHub Actions
Understanding GitHub Actions
Finding and customizing actions
Essential features of GitHub Actions
Expressions
Contexts
Variables
Usage limits, billing, and administration
Examples
Using scripts to test your code on a runner
Using the GitHub CLI on a runner
Using concurrency, expressions, and a test matrix
Using workflows
About workflows
Triggering a workflow
Manually running a workflow
Disabling and enabling a workflow
Events that trigger workflows
Workflow syntax for GitHub Actions
Workflow commands for GitHub Actions
Reusing workflows
Required workflows
Caching dependencies to speed up workflows
Storing workflow data as artifacts
Creating starter workflows for your organization
Using starter workflows
Sharing workflows, secrets, and runners with your organization
Using GitHub CLI in workflows
Using jobs
Using jobs in a workflow
Choosing the runner for a job
Using conditions to control job execution
Using a matrix for your jobs
Using concurrency
Using environments for jobs
Running jobs in a container
Setting default values for jobs
Assigning permissions to jobs
Defining outputs for jobs
Managing workflow runs
Re-running workflows and jobs
Canceling a workflow
Approving workflow runs from public forks
Approving workflow runs from private forks
Reviewing deployments
Skipping workflow runs
Deleting a workflow run
Downloading workflow artifacts
Removing workflow artifacts
Automating builds and tests
About continuous integration
Building and testing Go
Building and testing Java with Ant
Building and testing Java with Gradle
Building and testing Java with Maven
Building and testing .NET
Building and testing Node.js
Building and testing PowerShell
Building and testing Python
Building and testing Ruby
Building and testing Swift
Building and testing Xamarin applications
Deployment
About deployments • 2 articles
Deploying to your cloud provider • 3 articles
Security hardening your deployments • 7 articles
Targeting different environments • 1 articles
Protecting your deployments with custom deployment protection rules • 2 articles
Managing your deployments • 1 articles
Deploying Xcode applications • 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
Removing a label when a card is added to a project board column
Scheduling issue creation
Migrating to GitHub Actions
Using GitHub Actions Importer to automate migrations • 9 articles
Manually migrating to GitHub Actions • 5 articles
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 workflow run logs
Enabling debug logging
Notifications for workflow runs
Using GitHub-hosted runners
About GitHub-hosted runners
Monitoring your current jobs
Customizing GitHub-hosted runners
Connecting to a private network
About larger runners
Managing larger runners
Controlling access to larger runners
Running jobs on larger runners
Hosting your own runners
Managing self-hosted runners • 12 articles
Managing self-hosted runners with Actions Runner Controller • 6 articles
Security guides
Security hardening for GitHub Actions
Encrypted secrets
Automatic token authentication
Creating actions
About custom actions
Creating a Docker container action
Creating a JavaScript action
Creating a composite action
Metadata syntax for GitHub Actions
Dockerfile support for GitHub Actions
Setting exit codes for actions
Publishing actions in GitHub Marketplace
Sharing actions and workflows from your private repository
Sharing actions and workflows with your organization
Releasing and maintaining actions
Developing a third party CLI action