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What is Actions?

• Someone1234 7y ago
  Continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) services. Essentially when you merge a changeset you can configure a specific branch to automatically test, package, deploy, and integration test that branch with no additional human intervention.
  • Thaxll 7y ago
    AWS has that.
    • jlisam13 7y ago
      that's just a subset of the features you can develop with actions
  • irrational 7y ago
    So Actions is similar to Jenkins?
    • bastardoperator 7y ago
      minus the infrastructure, maintenance burden, and plugin hell
• chocolatkey 7y ago
  https://github.com/features/actions https://github.com/features/actions
• fingerprinter 7y ago
  Workflow automation w/ built in CI/CD, package management and code scanning etc. The most important bit is workflow automation. It can be triggered on most (all?) events github emits https://help.github.com/en/actions/reference/events-that-trigger-workflows https://help.github.com/en/actions/reference/events-that-tri... It was super obvious the value prop when it was HCL based. YAML based it kind of looks more like 'another CI'. It's still insanely powerful, just not as developer friendly anymore.