GitHub Launched Actions-Powered CI/CD Service – It’s Completely Free For Public Repos

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Fast CI/CD For Any OS, Language, and Cloud

As discussed previously in the GitHub blog, GitHub Actions now officially makes it convenient to build, test and deploy the project on any platform – whether it is Linux, macOS, and Windows.

It is ideal to run your container in a virtual machine or in a container itself. Actions are offering support for more languages and frameworks than it was earlier. iOS, Android, Python, Java, PHP, Ruby, C/C++, .NET and more.

If in case your concern is related to the multi-container app, then you can test your web service by adding docker-compose to your workflow file.

Cool it is, isn’t it? So it is possible to manage code, repo, deployment, automation, and testing altogether at one place. Github action has made it convenient to automate all your software workflows. So, right from Github, you can build, test and deploy your code. Do your code reviews, issue triaging, branch management the way you want them.

Create workflows with GitHub events – push, merge, on: pull request, issue creation, or a new release. Combine as well as configure actions for the services by the community. Whatever is your purpose, build a container app, publish packages to registries, or automate welcoming new users to your open source projects – there is already an action for that.

Matrix Builds

Matrix lets you test various versions of your project by adding few lines to the Actions YAML file, and rest will be taken care of by GitHub.

jobs:
  test:
    name: Test on node ${{ matrix.node_version }} and ${{ matrix.os }}
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    strategy:
      matrix:
        node_version: [8, 10, 12]
        os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest, macos-latest]

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1

	- name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node_version }}
      uses: actions/setup-node@v1
      with:
        version: ${{ matrix.node_version }}
    
    - name: npm install, build and test
      run: |
        npm install
        npm run build --if-present
        npm test

As shown in the yml file I defined node_version: [8, 10, 12] and os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest, macos-latest], now what happens this script while checking the compatibility with node versions 8,10,12 and also test of various operating system such as Ubuntu,Windows and MacOS with different version support,

By doing this we can easily judge and run our test cases and codebase, all these major things happen on two lines of code,

Developer who previously worked with https://circleci.com is already familiar with this yml systex

Creating and managing CI/CD is not that easy task, But Github did this job for you.

So from the next time whenever you will enable Actions for the repository, GitHub will give you suggestions on Actions workflows for your project. Like Ruby,node,python etc

Sign Up For The Beta

Learn more and sign up for the beta that is free until GitHub is officially making it available at GitHub Universe on November 13.