Awesome Actions

A curated list of awesome things related to GitHub Actions.

Actions are triggered by GitHub platform events directly in a repo and run on-demand workflows either on Linux, Windows or macOS virtual machines or inside a container in response. With GitHub Actions you can automate your workflow from idea to production.

Official Resources

Official Site
Official Documentation
Official Actions organization
- actions/virtual-environments - GitHub Actions virtual environments.
- actions/runner - The Runner for GitHub Actions.
GitHub Blog Announcement

Workflow Examples

actions/starter-workflows - Starter workflow management.
actions/example-services - Example workflows using service containers.

Official Actions

Workflow Tool Actions

Tool actions for your workflow.

actions/checkout - Setup your repository on your workflow.
actions/upload-artifact - Upload artifacts from your workflow.
actions/download-artifact - Download artifacts from your build.
actions/cache - Cache dependencies and build outputs in GitHub Actions.
actions/github-script - Write a script for GitHub API and the workflow contexts.

Actions for GitHub Automation

Automate management for issues, pull requests, and releases.

actions/create-release - An Action to create releases via the GitHub Release API.
actions/upload-release-asset - An Action to upload a release asset via the GitHub Release API.
actions/first-interaction - An action for filtering pull requests and issues from first-time contributors.
actions/stale - Marks issues and pull requests that have not had recent interaction.
actions/labeler - An action for automatically labelling pull requests.
actions/delete-package-versions - Delete versions of a package from GitHub Packages.

Setup Actions

Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of your programming languages.

Create your Actions

JavaScript and TypeScript Actions

actions/toolkit - The GitHub ToolKit for developing GitHub Actions.
actions/hello-world-javascript-action - A template to demonstrate how to build a JavaScript action.
actions/javascript-action - Create a JavaScript Action.
actions/typescript-action - Create a TypeScript Action.
actions/http-client - A lightweight HTTP client optimized for use with actions, TypeScript with generics and async await.

Docker Container Actions

actions/hello-world-docker-action - A template to demonstrate how to build a Docker action.
actions/container-toolkit-action - Template repo for creating container actions using actions/toolkit.

Community Resources

GitHub Tools and Management

Declaratively setup GitHub Labels
Action to sync GitHub labels in the declarative way
Add releases to GitHub
Publish a docker image to Dockerhub
Create an issue using content from a file
Publish GitHub Releases with Assets
GitHub Project Automation+ - Automate GitHub Project cards with any webhook event.
Run GitHub Actions Locally with a web interface
Run GitHub Actions Locally in Terminal
Build and Publish Android debug APK
Generate sequential build numbers for GitHub Actions
Push Git changes to GitHub repository without authentication difficulties
Generate release notes based on your events
Create a GitHub wiki page based on the provided markdown file
Label your Pull Requests auto-magically (using committed files)
Add Label to your Pull Requests based on the author team name
Get a list of file changes with PR/Push
Use private actions in any workflow
Label Your Issues Using the Issue's Contents
Rollback a GitHub Release
Lock Closed Issues and Pull Requests after a Period of Inactivity
Get Commit Difference Count Between Two Branches
Generate Release Notes Based on Git References
Enforce Policies on GitHub Repositories and Commits
Auto Label Issue Based on Issue Description
Update Configured GitHub Actions to the Latest Versions
Create Issue Branch
Remove Old Artifacts
Expose Git Commit Data As Environment Variables
Sync Defined Files/Binaries to Wiki or External Repositories
Create/Update/Delete a GitHub Wiki Page Based on Any File
Prow GitHub Actions - Automation of policy enforcement, chat-ops, and automatic PR merging.
Check GitHub Status in your Workflow
Manage Labels on GitHub (create/rename/update/delete) as Code
Continuous Distribution of Funding to your Project Contributors and Dependencies
Herald Rules for GitHub: Add Subscribers, Assignees, Labels, and More to Your PR
GitHub Codeowners Validator - Ensures the correctness of your GitHub CODEOWNERS file. It supports public and private GitHub repositories and also GitHub Enterprise installations.
Copybara Action - Move and transform code between repositories (ideal to maintain several repos from one monorepo).

Collection of Actions

Use HashiCorp's Terraform
GitHub Actions for Yarn 1
GitHub Actions for Yarn 2
GitHub Actions for Golang
GitHub Actions for R and accompanying #rstats package
GitHub Actions for WordPress
GitHub Actions for Composer
GitHub Actions for Flutter
GitHub Actions for PHP
GitHub Actions for Rust
GitHub Actions for Android
GitHub Actions for Logtalk and Prolog
GitHub Actions for Deno
GitHub Actions for Unity
Octions - GitHub Actions for GitHub REST API
GitHub Actions for Docker
GitHub Actions for AWS
GitHub Actions for AzureRm
Actions Hub

Utility

Environments

Dependencies

Install NPM Dependencies with Caching
Highlight New NPM Dependencies - Comments on pull requests newly added NPM dependencies information.
Cache NPM Dependencies
Cache Yarn Dependencies

Semantic Versioning

Next SemVers - Output the next version for major, minor, and patch version based on the given semver version.
Get latest SemVer and branch name given a search string
Cut Release Branch - Cuts a release branch given a branch prefix and optional semantic version.
Increment Semantic Version - Bump a given semantic version (SemVer), depending on given release type.
Git-Based Semantic Versioning - Customizable and automatic Git-based semantic version

Static Analysis

Testing

Linting

Security

A vulnerability scanner for your docker images
Automatically approve and merge Dependabot updates
Run dlint security linter on your Python code
AWS Secrets Manager Actions - Define AWS Secrets Manager secrets to environment values.
Linting your AWS IAM policy documents for correctness and security issues
Secret Spreader - Not an action per se, but a tool to manage Actions Secrets across a list of repositories.
Secrets Sync Action - Action syncs secrets across multiple repositories.
Snyk Test Action
Manage Your GitHub Actions Secrets With A Simple CLI
SecretHub - Have a single source of truth for your secrets and load them into GitHub Actions on demand.

Code Coverage

Dynamic Analysis

Monitoring

Audit a webpage with Google Chrome's Lighthouse tests
Runs Lighthouse and posts results to PRs and Slack
Run Lighthouse in CI using GitHub Actions
Continuous Benchmarking and Benchmark Visualization for Go
Size Limit Action - Comments cost comparison of your JS in PRs and rejects them if limit is exceeded.
Check bundlephobia - Comments new and modified package size according to bundlephobia.io website and rejects PR on threshold surpassed.
Workflow Telemetry Action - Tracks and monitors the resource metrics and process activities of your GitHub Action workflow runs.

Pull Requests

Set PR Reviewers Based on Assignees
Open or Update PR on Branch Push (with Branch Selection)
Automatically Rebase a PR
Label PR once it has a Specified Number of Approvals
Add Labels to a PR based on Matched File Patterns
Auto-Approve PRs
Automatically add Reviewers to PR based on the Configuration File
Add Labels to a PR based on Branch Name Patterns
Add Labels to a PR based on Total Size of the Diff
Automatically merge PRs That Are Ready
Verify That PRs Contain a Ticket Reference
Create a PR for Changes to your Repository in the Actions Workspace
Lint a PR
ChatOps for PRs
Prefix Title and Body of a PR Based on Text Extracted from Branch Name
Block Autosquash Commits
Automatically Bump and Tag on Merge
Automatically Update PRs with Outdated Checks and Squash and Merge the Ones Matching All Branch Protections
Merge Pal - Automatically Update and Merge PRs
Enforce naming convention on pull request title
Pull Request Stuck Notifier
Lint pull request name with commitlint (Awesome if you squash merge !)
Block PR merges when Checks for target branches are failing
Get generated static site screenshots updated by Pull Request
Add Labels Depending if the Pull Request Still in Progress
Ticket Check Action - Automatically add a ticket or issue number to the start of all Pull Request titles.
Pull Request Lint With Regex
Pull Request Landmines
Annotate a GitHub Pull Request Based on a Checkstyle XML-Report
Pull Request Stats - Print relevant stats about reviewers.
Pull Request Description Enforcer - Enforces description on pull requests.
Auto-approve Pull Requests - Auto-approves PRs if they match your custom criteria.
Recap - Summarize the most significant changes in a pull request using GPT.
Get Merged Pull Requests - GitHub action that compares 2 tags and retrieves all pull requests merged between them.

GitHub Pages

Deploy a Zola site to GitHub Pages
Build Hugo static content site and publish it to gh-pages branch
Build a Jekyll site—with Custom Jekyll Plugins & Build Scripts—and deploy it back to the Gh-Pages Branch
Google Dataset Search Metadata - And other schema.org extractors to make datasets discoverable from GitHub pages.
GitHub Actions for deploying to GitHub Pages with Static Site Generators
GitHub Action for Hexo
Deploy Google Analytics stats to GitHub Pages
A Jupyter Notebook Blogging Platform Powered by GitHub Actions, Pages and Jekyll
Deploy A Static Site to GitHub Pages - Deploy to custom directory and ignore folder/file.
Deploy to GitHub Pages with Advanced Settings

Notifications and Messages

Deployment

Docker

Update a Docker Hub repository description from README.md
Publish Docker Images to the GitHub Package Registry (GPR)
Update a repository's "Full description" on Docker Hub
Build and publish docker images to any registry using Kaniko
Monitor and limit your docker image size
Publish Docker Images to the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
Build And Push Your Docker Images Caching Each Stage To Reduce Build Time
Set up Docker Buildx
Convert Branch or Tag Name Into Docker-Compatible Image Tag
Update a Container Repository Description From README.md - Supported Registries: Docker Hub, Quay, Harbor.
Publish Docker images in a couple of registers

Kubernetes

AWS

Sync/upload a directory to an AWS S3 bucket
Deploy Lambda code to an existing function
Deploy Static Site to AWS

Terraform

Generate terraform documentation - Uses terraform-docs to generate docs for terraform modules.
An example of using Terraform to validate and apply GitHub administration
Infracost - Cloud cost estimates for Terraform in your pull requests.

External Services

Use a Jenkinsfile
GitHub Action for Firebase
GitHub Action for Contentful Migration CLI
GitHub Actions for Pixela (a-know/pi)
GitHub Action for Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Upload files to any OpenStack Swift service provider
GitHub Action for sending Stack Overflow posts to Slack
Assume AWS role
Generate Custom Response using JSONbin

Frontend Tools

Execute Gradle task
JS Build Actions - Run Grunt or Gulp build tasks and commit file changes.
GitHub Action for Gatsby CLI
Runs a WebPageTest audit and prints the results as commit comment
GitHub Actions for Hugo extended
Generate OG Image - Generate customisable open graph images from Markdown files.
GitHub Actions for mdBook
Setup Mint - Setup Mint (programming language for writing single page applications).
Gatsby AWS S3 Deployment - Deploy Gatsby to S3 (supports CloudFront).

Machine Learning Ops

Build

run-cmake - Multi platform action to build C/C++ software with CMake and Ninja.
run-vcpkg - Multi platform action to build and install C/C++ dependencies with vcpkg.
Build Go applications for multiplatform
Generate ~/.m2/settings.xml for Maven builds
Run Pascal Script
Setup Brainfuck - Setup brainfuck interpreter.
Publish Go Binaries to GitHub Release Assets
Setup COBOL

Database

Setup Cassandra Schema - Running scripts from the provided folder on top of Cassandra cluster.

Localization

Find and automatically fix typos and grammar issues in your code
Translation - Translate text from any language to any language.

Fun

Add equivalent of a like button in your README - Visualize community approval on some part of your readme (can be used as a poll).

Cheat Sheet

GitHub Actions Branding Cheat Sheet

Tutorials

Continuous deployment of Next.js app with Up
Converting Docker-based Actions to JavaScript/TypeScript
GitHub Actions CI for Swift/iOS Projects
Working with GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions for Rails Developers
GitHub Actions Advent Calendar
Zero Downtime Laravel Deployments with GitHub Actions
Building Custom GitHub Actions Pluralsight Course
Continuously Deploying Django to DigitalOcean with Docker and GitHub Actions
Deploying Self-Hosted GitHub Actions Runners with Docker - Deploy self-hosted GitHub Actions runners with Docker and Docker Swarm to DigitalOcean.
Setup Auto-scaled self-hosted GitHub Actions Runners on AWS Spot-instances
Getting the Gist of GitHub Actions

Please don't hesitate to make a PR if you have more resources to share. Check out contributing.md for more information.

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