The GitHub marketplace

You can use the GitHub marketplace (https://github.com/marketplace) to search for Actions to use in your workflows. It's easy to publish an action to the marketplace, which is why there are already nearly 10,000 actions available. You can filter the actions by categories or use the search bar to limit the number of actions you see (see Figure 6.7):

Figure 6.7 – The marketplace contains nearly 10,000 actions

The action shows the readme from the repository and additional information. You can see the full list of versions and get information on how to use the current version:

Figure 6.8 – An action in the marketplace

It's easy to publish an action to the marketplace. Make sure that the Action is in a public repository, that the name of the action is unique, and that the action contains a good readme. Pick an icon and color and add it to action.yml:

branding:

  icon: 'award...