How-tos for GitHub Actions

Learn how to accomplish specific goals with GitHub Actions.

Writing workflows
- Using workflow templates
- Choosing when your workflow runs
- Choosing where your workflow runs
- Choosing what your workflow does
- Building and testing
Managing workflow runs and deployments
- Managing workflow runs
- Managing deployments
- Managing deployments to third-party platforms
Creating and publishing actions
- Managing custom actions
- Creating a third party CLI action
- Setting exit codes for actions
- Publishing actions in GitHub Marketplace
- Releasing and maintaining actions
Sharing automations
- Reuse workflows
- Creating workflow templates for your organization
- Sharing actions and workflows from your private repository
- Sharing actions and workflows with your organization
Using GitHub-hosted runners
- Using GitHub-hosted runners
- Customizing GitHub-hosted runners
- Viewing your current jobs
- Connecting to a private network with GitHub-hosted runners
Managing self-hosted runners
- Adding self-hosted runners
- Running scripts before or after a job
- Customizing the containers used by jobs
- Configuring the self-hosted runner application as a service
- Using a proxy server with self-hosted runners
- Using labels with self-hosted runners
- Using self-hosted runners in a workflow
- Managing access to self-hosted runners using groups
- Monitoring and troubleshooting self-hosted runners
- Removing self-hosted runners
Using larger runners
- Managing larger runners
- Controlling access to larger runners
- Running jobs on larger runners
Security for GitHub Actions
- Using artifact attestations
- Security hardening your deployments
Use cases and examples
- Managing projects
- Using containerized services
Administering GitHub Actions
- Viewing GitHub Actions metrics
Monitor workflows
- Using the visualization graph
- Viewing workflow run history
- Viewing job execution time
- Adding a workflow status badge
- Using workflow run logs
- Enabling debug logging
Troubleshooting workflows
Getting help from GitHub Support about GitHub Actions