GitHub Actions guides
These guides for GitHub Actions include specific use cases and examples to help you configure workflows.
Get started with GitHub Actions
Discover the possibilities of GitHub Actions by creating your first workflow.Start learning path- 1Overview
Understanding GitHub Actions
Learn the basics of GitHub Actions, including core concepts and essential terminology. - 2How-to guide
Finding and customizing actions
Actions are the building blocks that power your workflow. A workflow can contain actions created by the community, or you can create your own actions directly within your application's repository. This guide will show you how to discover, use, and customize actions. - 3Overview
Essential features of GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions are designed to help you build robust and dynamic automations. This guide will show you how to craft GitHub Actions workflows that include environment variables, customized scripts, and more. - 4How-to guide
Advanced workflow features
This guide shows you how to use the advanced features of GitHub Actions, with secret management, dependent jobs, caching, build matrices, environments, and labels. - 5How-to guide
Reusing workflows
Learn how to avoid duplication when creating a workflow by reusing existing workflows. - 6Overview
Security hardening for GitHub Actions
Good security practices for using GitHub Actions features.
GitHub Actions learning paths
Build and test code
You can create custom continuous integration (CI) workflows right in your repository.
Automate your deployments
Learn how to automate release publishing for your project with a custom continuous deployment (CD) workflow in GitHub Actions.
Deploy to the cloud
Learn how to use GitHub Actions to build an application and deploy it to various cloud-based platforms.
Host your own runners
You can create self-hosted runners to run workflows in a highly customizable environment.
Create an action
Do you have an idea for a new action? Have you built something custom for your project? Learn how to build shareable actions and publish them to GitHub Marketplace.
All GitHub Actions guides
Quickstart for GitHub Actions
QuickstartTry out the features of GitHub Actions in 5 minutes or less.
- Fundamentals
Understanding GitHub Actions
OverviewLearn the basics of GitHub Actions, including core concepts and essential terminology.
- Fundamentals
Creating a Docker container action
TutorialThis guide shows you the minimal steps required to build a Docker container action.
- Action development
- Docker
Using starter workflows
TutorialGitHub provides starter workflows for a variety of languages and tooling.
- Workflows
- CI
- CD
Building and testing Python
TutorialYou can create a continuous integration (CI) workflow to build and test your Python project.
- CI
- Python
Building and testing Node.js
TutorialYou can create a continuous integration (CI) workflow to build and test your Node.js project.
- CI
- Node
- JavaScript
About packaging with GitHub Actions
OverviewYou can set up workflows in GitHub Actions to produce packages and upload them to GitHub Packages or another package hosting provider.
- Packaging
Publishing Docker images
TutorialYou can publish Docker images to a registry, such as Docker Hub or GitHub Packages, as part of your continuous integration (CI) workflow.
- Packaging
- Publishing
- Docker
Caching dependencies to speed up workflows
TutorialTo make your workflows faster and more efficient, you can create and use caches for dependencies and other commonly reused files.
- Workflows
