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 Community Forum Board
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/github - Wraps actions-toolkit into an Action for common GitHub automations.
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

Collection of Actions

Utility

Setup ssh-agent - Run ssh-agent with additional SSH keys to access private repositories.
GitHub Actions Badges for your README
GitHub Actions for Python project with poetry
GitHub Actions to compile LaTeX documents
Update Maxmind Databases
Debug with SSH over tmate - Debug the Action directly by providing a SSH connection.
Unlock git-crypt files
Golang CGO cross compiler
Run your job on another architecture: arm32, aarch64 and others
Generate a table of contents
Automatically add Label or Assignee to an Issue
Action to send LGTM reaction as image or GIF when we say lgtm
Generate build numbers across multiple scopes
Publish GitHub release artifacts
Jekyll Diff Action - Diffs the built Jekyll site after a change, and comments the result back to GitHub.
Branch Protection Bot - Temporarily disable and re-enable "Include administrators" option in branch protection.
Wait for commit statuses - Wait until all statuses and checks are successful or any of them has failed and set its status output accordingly.
Get Latest Tag - Get the previous tag from git.
Create Milestone - Create a new open milestone given the title and description.
Close Milestone - Close the given milestone.
Action to enforce branch naming rules
Expose slug of some GitHub variables
awesome-lint as a GitHub Action
Edit JSON File
Build Slate documentation
Read Properties - Read values from .properties files.
Write Properties - Write values to .properties files.
Apply templates with Jinja2 - Use the Jinja2 template engine to generate files from templates.
Has Changes - Check if there are code changes from previous steps.
Mind Your Language Action - Detect offensive comments in issues and pull requests, and warn senders.
NSFW Detection - Detect NSFW content in commited files.

Environments

Dependencies

Install NPM dependencies with caching

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.

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.

Code Coverage

Monitoring

Pull Requests

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

Notifications and Messages

Deployment

Docker

Kubernetes

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

External Services

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).

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
Setup Brainfuck - Setup brainfuck interpreter.

Database

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

Cheat Sheet

GitHub Actions Branding Cheat Sheet

Tutorials

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

License - my license

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