Why developers like GitHub Actions

What is GitHub Actions?

It makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD. Build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub. Make code reviews, branch management, and issue triaging work the way you want.

GitHub Actions is a tool in the Continuous Integration category of a tech stack.

Who uses GitHub Actions?

Companies

967 companies reportedly use GitHub Actions in their tech stacks, including GitHub, HENNGE K.K., and Payhere.

GitHub

HENNGE K.K.

Payhere

Typeform

UpstageAI

main

technology

BlaBlaCar

GitBook

Developers

4027 developers on StackShare have stated that they use GitHub Actions.

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development

Have worked with

Personal

My Stack

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GitHub Actions Integrations

GitHub, BrowserStack, Liquibase, Dokku, and Seed are some of the popular tools that integrate with GitHub Actions. Here's a list of all 68 tools that integrate with GitHub Actions.

GitHub

BrowserStack

Liquibase

Dokku

Seed

Blackfire.io

Doppler

LightStep

Datree

Pros of GitHub Actions

Integration with GitHub

Free

Easy to duplicate a workflow

Ready actions in Marketplace

Configs stored in .github

Docker Support

Read actions in Marketplace

Active Development Roadmap

Fast

Decisions about GitHub Actions

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose GitHub Actions in their tech stack.

Somnath Mahale

Engineering Leader at Altimetrik Corp. · Jun 25, 2020 | 8 upvotes · 1.8M views

Needs advice

CircleCI

Drone.io

and

GitHub Actions

I am in the process of evaluating CircleCI, Drone.io, and Github Actions to cover my #CI/ CD needs. I would appreciate your advice on comparative study w.r.t. attributes like language-Inclusive support, code-base integration, performance, cost, maintenance, support, ease of use, ability to deal with big projects, etc. based on actual industry experience.

Thanks in advance!

Omkar Kulkarni

DevOps Engineer at LTI · Apr 19, 2021 | 3 upvotes · 1.5M views

Needs advice

GitHub Actions

and

GitLab

Hello Everyone, Can some please help me to understand the difference between GitHub Actions And GitLab I have been trying to understand them, but still did not get how exactly they are different.

Jackie Liu

Oct 21, 2020 | 1 upvote · 25.2K views

Chose

GitHub Actions

DCSIL

GitHub Actions is a convenient way for us to implement CI/CD for our project since we are already using GitHub for version control. Having both functionalities on the same platform will make the process more simple. Actions is also easy to setup and supports a wide variety of tech stacks.

Shubham Chadokar

Software Engineer Specialist at Kaleyra · Aug 25, 2021 | 6 upvotes · 122.5K views

Needs advice

AWS CodeDeploy

AWS CodePipeline

and

GitHub Actions

I have created a SaaS application. 1 backend service and 2 frontend services, all 3 run on different ports. I am using Amazon ECR images to deploy them on the EC2 server. My code is on GitHub. I want to automate this deployment process. How can I do this, and What tech stack should I use? It should be in sync with what I am currently using. On merge to master, it should build push the image to ECR and then later deploy again in the EC2 with the latest image. Maybe GitHub Actions or AWS CodePipeline would be ideal. Thanks, Shubham

Shubham Chadokar

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GitHub Actions's Features

Multiple workflow files support
Free and open source
Workflow run interface
Search for actions in GitHub Marketplace
Integrated with Github's Checks API
Logs and artifacts downloading support

GitHub Actions Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to GitHub Actions?

CircleCI

Continuous integration and delivery platform helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. Offers a modern software development platform that lets teams ramp.

Jenkins

In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.

Azure Pipelines

Fast builds with parallel jobs and test execution. Use container jobs to create consistent and reliable builds with the exact tools you need. Create new containers with ease and push them to any registry.

GitLab CI

GitLab offers a continuous integration service. If you add a .gitlab-ci.yml file to the root directory of your repository, and configure your GitLab project to use a Runner, then each merge request or push triggers your CI pipeline.

GitLab

GitLab offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis. Enterprises install GitLab on-premise and connect it with LDAP and Active Directory servers for secure authentication and authorization. A single GitLab server can handle more than 25,000 users but it is also possible to create a high availability setup with multiple active servers.

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