GitHub Actions

In plain words

GitHub Actions is a workflow automation tool built into GitHub that helps developers automate tasks from development through to production. Integrated directly with GitHub repositories, it allows developers to create custom workflows triggered by events like code commits or pull requests. The tool is designed for development teams looking to streamline repetitive processes and improve their continuous integration and deployment pipelines without leaving their GitHub workspace.

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From the sources

GitHub Actions is a workflow automation tool for developers.

GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

GitHub Actions 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 youfrom github.com

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  GitHub Marketplace2017 · github.com · ▲539

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  Hi all! I wanted to share a small project that I've been working on with a buddy. https://www.actionspanel.app/ One of the problems that currently exists with GitHub Actions is the fact that there is no way to easily trigger your Actions unless you cause some kind of GitHub event. This could be pushing a new commit, or creating an issue on a repository. But if you just want to run an arbitrary action, there's not currently a good way to do that. This is a well known feature request: https://github.community/t5/GitHub-Actions/GitHub-Actions-Ma... GitHub…

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