GitHub Actions are a powerful workflow tool that allows you to write and use custom code to execute workflows. It's like a serverless CI/CD platform built directly into GitHub. We have access to GitHub's registries, our own repos, multiple platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux), runtimes (VMs and Containers), and languages (JS, Rust, Go, etc) to perform any action we want. We can trigger workflows using GitHub's own events, our custom events, or even scheduled events like a cronjob.

GitHub Actions are a powerfully flexible workflow automation tool that lets you respond to GitHub events, your own arbitrary events (like webhooks), or scheduled events with workflows that run on Windows, Mac, or Linux in VMs and Containers. It's like a serverless CI/CD platform built into GitHub.

Introduction to GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions can feel daunting. Here's a walkthrough setting up your first action that runs some command line scripts on every push to master.

Using your first GitHub Action

GitHub Actions can be triggered to run on a schedule using cron syntax. In this video we go over what that means and how to write cron syntax. We also show a tool and a series of examples to aid in writing and debugging cron.

* https://crontab.guru/

GitHub Actions at Work

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