GitHub Actions is an automated CI/CD platform that integrates with GitHub to create seamless, versatile CI/CD pipelines. Here's how it works.

Ten months ago, GitHub launched Actions, its workflow automation platform. Developers could already take actions to trigger all kinds of events and use that to build custom CI/CD pipelines.

Another competitor is popular CI/CD platform GitHub Actions. GitHub Actions enables developers to automate software workflows so they can build, test and deploy code directly from GitHub to the cloud.

CI/CD automation tooling like GitHub Actions allows developers to set up scheduled tasks for their code repositories, such as automatically vetting and processing incoming pull requests.

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One of the easiest tools for CI/CD is GitHub Actions, a workflow framework that is built into GitHub. This article presents a gentle, hands-on introduction to using GitHub Actions.