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GitHub Actions
ByTomTom

GitHub Actions

#3in Continuous Integration
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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.

Key Features

Multiple workflow files supportFree and open sourceWorkflow run interfaceSearch for actions in GitHub MarketplaceIntegrated with Github's Checks APILogs and artifacts downloading support

GitHub Actions Pros & Cons

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

Cons of GitHub Actions

  • ✗Lacking [skip ci]
  • ✗Lacking allow failure
  • ✗Lacking job specific badges
  • ✗No ssh login to servers
  • ✗No Deployment Projects
  • ✗No manual launch

GitHub Actions Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to GitHub Actions?

Jenkins

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.

Travis CI

Travis CI

Free for open source projects, our CI environment provides multiple runtimes (e.g. Node.js or PHP versions), data stores and so on. Because of this, hosting your project on travis-ci.com means you can effortlessly test your library or applications against multiple runtimes and data stores without even having all of them installed locally.

CircleCI

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.

GitLab CI

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.

Airflow

Airflow

Use Airflow to author workflows as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of tasks. The Airflow scheduler executes your tasks on an array of workers while following the specified dependencies. Rich command lines utilities makes performing complex surgeries on DAGs a snap. The rich user interface makes it easy to visualize pipelines running in production, monitor progress and troubleshoot issues when needed.

Azure Pipelines

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.

GitHub Actions Integrations

GitHub, pgRITA, Earthly, Actionsflow, Trivy and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with GitHub Actions. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with GitHub Actions.

GitHub
GitHub
pgRITA
pgRITA
Earthly
Earthly
Actionsflow
Actionsflow
Trivy
Trivy
Seed
Seed
LightStep
LightStep
Infracost
Infracost
Effx
Effx
JetBrains Qodana
JetBrains Qodana
Anka Build
Anka Build
Qovery
Qovery

GitHub Actions Discussions

Discover why developers choose GitHub Actions. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.Showing 2 of 5 discussions.

Omkar Kulkarni
Omkar Kulkarni

DevOps Engineer

Apr 19, 2021

Needs adviceonGitHub ActionsGitHub ActionsGitLabGitLab

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.

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Jackie Liu
Jackie Liu

Oct 21, 2020

Needs adviceonGitHub ActionsGitHub ActionsGitHubGitHub

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.

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