Resources

External links around GH Actions, from basic to advanced usage

If you are new to GitHub Actions, I recommend going over my blog posts on dev.to - Intro to GitHub Actions series

Overview

• GitHub Actions Marketplace
• GitHub Actions org on Github
• GitHub Actions community forums

Documentation

• GitHub Actions Documentation
• Configuring and managing workflows
  • A good step-by-step tutorial for setting up GH Actions
• Environment variables
• Getting Started section
  • Core concepts
• Reference section
  • Workflow syntax
  • Events that trigger workflows
  • Context and expression syntax
  • Workflow commands
    • e.g. Setting color to green or showing a warning message. ```yaml
      • name: Set selected color run: echo ‘::set-env name=SELECTED_COLOR::green’ ```
    • This can be useful in workflows and when writing commands in the shell file for an action.

Limitations

• Intro to GitHub Actions blog post

  Actions are completely free for every open-source repository and include 2000 free build minutes per month for all your private repositories which is comparable with most CI/CD free plans. If that is not enough for your needs you can pick another plan or go the self-hosted route.

• Usage limits

  On the free tier you can have 20 concurrent jobs. I guess 20 on one repo or 20 repos with one each.