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GitHub Actions documentation

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.

Overview Quickstart

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Quickstart for GitHub Actions

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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.

Articles

Reuse and share automations

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.
Administer GitHub Actions

Actions limits

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

Actions Runner Controller

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

Adding a workflow status badge

You can display a status badge in your repository to indicate the status of your workflows.
Reuse and share automations

Adding labels to issues

You can use GitHub Actions to automatically label issues.
Write workflows

Adding scripts to your workflow

You can use GitHub Actions workflows to run scripts.
Set up runners

Adding self-hosted runners

You can add a self-hosted runner to a repository, an organization, or an enterprise.
Manage and monitor workflow runs

Approving workflow runs from forks

You can manually approve workflow runs that have been triggered by a contributor's pull request.
Migrate to GitHub Actions

Automating migration with GitHub Actions Importer

Use GitHub Actions Importer to plan and automate your migration to GitHub Actions.
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