1 Introduction to GitHub Actions

 

This chapter covers

  • Introducing the GitHub universe
  • Understanding GitHub Actions and their workflows
  • Learning about the possibilities for GitHub Actions beyond CI/CD pipelines
  • Understanding licenses and pricing for GitHub and GitHub Actions

GitHub (https://github.com) is more than just a platform for hosting and sharing code. It has become the beating heart of the open source community, with millions of developers from all over the world collaborating on projects of every type and size. Founded in 2008, GitHub has since grown to host over 200 million repositories and 100 million users, with a staggering 3.5 billion contributions made in the last year alone.

And now, with GitHub Actions, developers have access to a powerful and flexible toolset for automating their workflows, from continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) to custom automation tasks and beyond. GitHub Actions is much more than just a CI/CD tool—it’s a comprehensive automation platform that can help streamline your entire development workflow.

1.1 An introduction to the GitHub universe

1.2 What are GitHub Actions and workflows?

1.3 GitHub Actions: More than CI/CD pipelines

1.4 Hosting and pricing for GitHub and GitHub Actions

1.4.1 GitHub Enterprise Cloud

1.4.2 GitHub Enterprise Server

1.4.3 GitHub pricing

1.4.4 GitHub Actions pricing

1.5 Conclusion

Summary

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