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Using GitHub-hosted runners

Quickstart

Understand GitHub Actions

Find and customize actions

Essential features

Expressions

Contexts

Variables

Workflow billing & limits

Learn GitHub Actions

Use scripts to test your code on a runner

Use the GitHub CLI on a runner

Use concurrency, expressions, and a test matrix

Examples

About workflows

Trigger a workflow

Manually run a workflow

Disable & enable a workflow

Events that trigger workflows

Workflow syntax

Workflow commands

Reuse workflows

Required workflows

Cache dependencies

Store artifacts

Create starter workflows

Use starter workflows

Share workflows with your organization

GitHub CLI in workflows

Using workflows

Use jobs in a workflow

Choose the runner for a job

Use conditions to control job execution

Matrices

Concurrency

Environments

Run jobs in a container

Set default values for jobs

Assign permissions to jobs

Define outputs for jobs

Using jobs

Re-run workflows and jobs

Cancel a workflow

Approve public fork runs

Approve private fork runs

Review deployments

Skip workflow runs

Delete a workflow run

Download workflow artifacts

Remove workflow artifacts

Manage workflow runs

Continuous integration

Build & test Go

Build & test Java & Ant

Build & test Java & Gradle

Build & test Java with Maven

Build & test .NET

Build & test Node.js

Build & test PowerShell

Build & test Python

Build & test Ruby

Build & test Swift

Build & test Xamarin apps

Build and test

About continuous deployment

Deploy with GitHub Actions

About deployments

Deploy to Amazon ECS

Deploy to Azure

Deploy to Google Kubernetes Engine

Deploy to your cloud provider

Security hardening with OpenID Connect

OpenID Connect in AWS

OpenID Connect in Azure

OpenID Connect in Google Cloud Platform

OpenID Connect in HashiCorp Vault

OpenID Connect in cloud providers

OpenID Connect with reusable workflows

Security harden deployments

Use environments for deployment

Target different environments

Create custom protection rules

Configure custom protection rules

Protect deployments

View deployment history

Manage your deployments

Sign Xcode applications

Deploy Xcode applications

Deployment

About service containers

Create PostgreSQL service containers

Create Redis service containers

Containerized services

Packaging with GitHub Actions

Publish Docker images

Publish Java packages with Gradle

Publish Java packages with Maven

Publish Node.js packages

Publish packages

Actions for project management

Add labels to issues

Close inactive issues

Add label to comment on issue

Move assigned issues

Remove label when adding card

Schedule issue creation

Manage issues and pull requests

Automate migration with GitHub Actions Importer

Extending GitHub Actions Importer

Supplemental arguments and settings

Azure DevOps migration

Bamboo migration

CircleCI migration

GitLab migration

Jenkins migration

Travis CI migration

Automated migrations

Migrate from Azure Pipelines

Migrate from CircleCI

Migrate from GitLab CI/CD

Migrate from Jenkins

Migrate from Travis CI

Manual migrations

Migrate to GitHub Actions

About monitoring and troubleshooting

Visualization graph

Add a status badge

Workflow run history

View job execution time

Workflow run logs

Enable debug logging

Notifications for workflow runs

Monitor & troubleshoot

About GitHub-hosted runners

Monitor current jobs

Customize runners

Connect to a private network

About larger runners

Manage larger runners

Control access to larger runners

Run jobs on larger runners

GitHub-hosted runners

About self-hosted runners

Add self-hosted runners

Autoscale self-hosted runners

Run a script before or after a job

Customize containers used by jobs

Run the runner app as a service

Proxy servers

Label runners

Use runners in a workflow

Manage access with runner groups

Remove self-hosted runners

Manage self-hosted runners

About ARC

Authenticating

Deploying runner scale sets

Using ARC in a workflow

Troubleshoot

Actions Runner Controller

Self-hosted runners

Security hardening

Encrypted secrets

Automatic token authentication

Security guides

About custom actions

Create a Docker container action

Create a JavaScript action

Create a composite action

Metadata syntax

Dockerfile support

Creating actions