Understanding GitHub Actions for CI/CD

In this section, we will dive into GitHub Action to recognize its role in automating software workflows directly within GitHub repositories and facilitating CI and continuous deployment (CD) processes. CI/CD practices aim to accelerate development cycles, enhance code quality, and streamline application deployment processes.

GitHub Actions enables the direct automation of software workflows within GitHub repositories, encompassing CI/CD processes. By automating these workflows, development cycles can be expedited, code quality can be ensured, and application deployment processes can be streamlined. An example of this automation could be running tests on code automatically upon pushing changes to the repository.

In the context of CI/CD, CI involves regularly merging all developers’ working copies to a shared mainline several times a day. This helps to detect and address bugs quickly. By integrating code frequently, teams can identify...