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Introduction to GitHub Actions

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What are Actions and how do workflows run?

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Introduction to GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions is a CI/CD platform built into GitHub.

Key concepts

  • Workflow: a YAML file in .github/workflows/
  • Event: what triggers the workflow (push, PR, schedule)
  • Job: a group of steps running on a runner
  • Step: a single task

Hello World

name: CI
on: [push]
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - run: echo "Hello, Actions!"