Using starter workflows

About starter workflows

Starter workflows are templates that help you to create your own GitHub Actions workflows for a repository. They offer an alternative to starting from a blank workflow file and are useful because some of the work will already have been done for you.

GitHub Enterprise Server offers starter workflows for a variety of languages and tooling. When you set up workflows in your repository, GitHub Enterprise Server analyzes the code in your repository and recommends workflows based on the language and framework in your repository. For example, if you use Node.js, GitHub Enterprise Server will suggest a starter workflow file that installs your Node.js packages and runs your tests. You can search and filter to find relevant starter workflows.

GitHub fournit des workflows de démarrage prêts à l’emploi pour les catégories de haut niveau suivantes :

• Déploiement (CD) . Pour plus d’informations, consultez « À propos du déploiement continu ».

• Intégration continue (CI) . Pour plus d’informations, consultez « À propos de l’intégration continue ».

• Automatisation. Les workflows de démarrage Automation offrent des solutions pour automatiser les workflows, comme le tri des demandes d’extraction et l’application d’une étiquette en fonction des chemins qui sont modifiés dans la demande de tirage ou des utilisateurs qui sont contributeurs au référentiel pour la première fois.

You can also create your own starter workflow to share with your organization. These starter workflows will appear alongside the GitHub Enterprise Server-provided starter workflows. Anyone with write access to the organization's github repository can set up a starter workflow. For more information, see "Création de workflows de démarrage pour votre organisation."

Choosing and using a starter workflow

1. Dans votre instance GitHub Enterprise Server, accédez à la page principale du dépôt.

2. Sous le nom de votre dépôt, cliquez sur Actions.

   

3. If you already have a workflow in your repository, click New workflow.

4. The "Choose a workflow" page shows a selection of recommended starter workflows. Find the starter workflow that you want to use, then click Configure. To help you find the starter workflow that you want, you can search for keywords or filter by category.

5. If the starter workflow contains comments detailing additional setup steps, follow these steps.

   There are guides to accompany many of the starter workflows for building and testing projects. For more information, see "Automatisation des builds et des tests."

6. Some starter workflows use secrets. For example, ${{ secrets.npm_token }}. If the starter workflow uses a secret, store the value described in the secret name as a secret in your repository. For more information, see "Utilisation de secrets dans GitHub Actions."

7. Optionally, make additional changes. For example, you might want to change the value of on to change when the workflow runs.

8. Click Start commit.

9. Write a commit message and decide whether to commit directly to the default branch or to open a pull request.

Further reading

• "À propos de l’intégration continue"
• "Gestion des exécutions de workflow"
• "À propos du monitoring et de la résolution des problèmes"