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What are the practical applications of GitHub Actions?
Chatgpt is right?
GitHub Actions offer a range of practical applications across software development workflows. Some key applications include:
Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD): Automating the process of building, testing, and deploying code changes. For instance, when a developer pushes code to a repository, Actions can automatically trigger tests or deploy the code to staging or production environments.
Code Quality and Testing: Running automated tests, code linting, and static analysis tools to ensure code quality and identify issues early in the development process.
Release Management: Automating the creation of release packages, versioning, and distribution to different environments or package registries.
Issue and Pull Request Workflows: Automating actions in response to issues or pull requests, such as assigning reviewers, labeling issues, or notifying team members.
Scheduled Tasks and Maintenance: Running periodic tasks like database backups, cache clearing, or system maintenance at scheduled intervals.
Custom Workflows: Tailoring Actions to perform specific custom tasks or automate unique parts of the development process.
Dependency Management: Automating dependency updates or vulnerability scanning to ensure projects are using the latest and most secure libraries.
Notifications and Reporting: Sending notifications or generating reports based on specific events or triggers in the repository.
GitHub Actions provide a flexible and customizable way to automate various aspects of software development and can be adapted to suit the specific needs of a project or team.
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Check the correctness of commits
Automatically generate binaries
Be abused by MJJs
The best use-case scenario that I have seen is to build kernels and distros after every patch.
How?
I use it in every single one of my projects to build the Docker images for it. All I have to do is
docker compose pulland thendocker compose up -d.Big fan of GHA, building things and automatically generating release artifacts for a variety of architectures.
You can also use it for IaS deployments if you're spicy.
next time ask chatgpt to do it with pirate accent, less meme words and practical examples.
really boils down to automating the manual steps in your development workflow, period.
Same
Lots of things and it's very extensible.
At my previous org, it was used for deploying pretty much everything. It would run tests, build the docker images, SSH into prod servers and execute docker-compose.
We also had a website repo where GA would build the web app, deploy it in AWS S3 and flush the cache in S3.
Personally, it's super useful if you have a blog, all you need to do is write the posts, commit and push. GA would take care of the build and deployment.
About automatic deploys, Cloudflare pages integrates extremely well with Github, if you're running DNS on Cloudflare, it's CRAZY what you get for free
In the same repo, CF builds our frontend based on /frontend, and Github Actions builds our backends docker container based on /backend and another folder as well
I also use Docker hub as a completely free container repo, with tags representing the actual repo the image came from (as only one repo on there is free for private usage)
reponame-frontend/backend/whatever-dev/prod
I've seen tutorials on how to use actions to mine crypto or setup free vpn