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Triggered by an event related to activity on GitHub, open up a virtual machine and have it do something. Possibilities are endless but include building, testing, deploying, and posting GIFs.
I'm on the Actions team at GitHub, and this is a great description. Especially the part about GIFs.
That's a good idea. Deploy a new version, generate a post on Twitter with a GIF. 🙃
If you use the Twitter Together GitHub Action, you could simply PR a .tweet file and then use the automerge Action to merge it if the build passes (which it should!) :)
It can even interact with non-code portions of your repo like comments and issues.
And you can download artifacts generated by the action, I haven't found any use cases for myself but it's kinda cool to have!
Maybe compile a PDF from LaTeX and download it.
It is a great and shorted description. But i think using containers will speed up provision time
Are just enhanced webhooks :D. Anyway, they are a huge help to increase automation and aid continuous delivery efforts.
Event-based webhooks designed to automate your project's workflows - from issues tracking to deployments. Aaaaand, it's free for open source software.
Basically, a world-class CI/CD inside your repo.
commit -> event fired-> go through github action workflow file -> check the rules -> do the job
Github runs the job on runner you have mentioned like linux, mac or windows.
Not an explanation but here's a bunch of working examples different action workflows! github.com/drewmullen/actions-play...
It’s just some
do_action('push')stuff within the GitHub’s WordPress site environment.We then do some
add_action('push', function() {})stuff to listen to thepushevent through our WordPress plugin for GitHub.🤐
An action is triggered by an event. An event is and interaction with your repo on github. It’s like saying “Hey GitHub, when this thing happens can you do some stuff for me?” The ‘stuff’ is the set of instructions that you would like completing. An example would be to deploy when a commit is added on the master branch.
GitHub has webhooks for tons of things that happen to your repo. GitHub actions lets you run whatever code you want (like unit tests!), to respond to any of those webhooks.
Your code runs on GitHub's servers and you can get status updates on whether your code passed or failed
There's nothing straightforward than an example, the last one I wrote: github.com/angt/secret/blob/master...
Start a computer in the cloud each time [an action] is executed.
Travis CI on steroids? 🤔
I was thinking to create a series for this on Dev and you gave me another reason for it. 😅
When a GitHub event you've defined happens, someone else's computer does whatever you've told it to do.
With GitHub Actions you can react to events (anything that happens on GitHub) and run command (Actions). See it as the Event Driven pattern applied to modern DevOps.
They work well 😂