Automate, customize, and execute your software development workflows right in your repository with GitHub Actions. You can discover, create, and share actions to perform any job you'd like, including CI/CD, and combine actions in a completely customized workflow.

Quickstart for GitHub Actions

Try out the core features of GitHub Actions in minutes.

Understanding GitHub Actions

Learn the basics of core concepts and essential terminology in GitHub Actions.

Using GitHub-hosted runners

You can assign a job to run on a virtual machine hosted by GitHub.

About Actions policies

Govern how GitHub Actions workflows run within your repository, organization, or enterprise.

About custom actions

Actions are individual tasks that you can combine to create jobs and customize your workflow. You can create your own actions, or use and customize actions shared by the GitHub community.

About GitHub Actions metrics

Learn about the GitHub Actions metrics available for your organizations and repositories.

Actions limits

There are limits in GitHub Actions which you may hit as you scale up, some may be increased by contacting support.

Actions Runner Controller

You can host your own runners and customize the environment used to run jobs in your GitHub Actions workflows.

Adding a workflow status badge

You can display a status badge in your repository to indicate the status of your workflows.

Adding labels to issues

You can use GitHub Actions to automatically label issues.

Adding scripts to your workflow

You can use GitHub Actions workflows to run scripts.

Adding self-hosted runners

You can add a self-hosted runner to a repository, an organization, or an enterprise.