HISTORY OF DEV

November 13, 2019

GitHub Actions generally available

GitHubA platform for Git hosting, pull requests, and CI — the center of open-source collaboration. announced Actions generally available at Universe on November 13, 2019 — native CI/CDCompact disc — an optical storage format for digital audio and data. workflows defined in YAML inside repositories.

What it was for

GitHub ActionsGitHubA platform for Git hosting, pull requests, and CI — the center of open-source collaboration. Actions runs jobs on push, pull request, or schedule — build, test, deploy with marketplace actions for AWSAmazon Web Services — the dominant cloud platform for compute, storage, and managed infrastructure., DockerSoftware that packages applications into containers — became the default way to ship and deploy services., and npmNode Package Manager — the default registry and CLI for installing JavaScript and TypeScript libraries.. Workflows live in `.github/workflows/` beside the code they test. It displaced Travis CI for many open-source projects and integrated CI into the forge developers already used.

Companies

  • GitHub

Why it's here

GitHubA platform for Git hosting, pull requests, and CI — the center of open-source collaboration. Actions brought CI/CDCompact disc — an optical storage format for digital audio and data. into the platform that already hosted the code.

Why it mattered

It made automated testing and deployment the default for GitHubA platform for Git hosting, pull requests, and CI — the center of open-source collaboration.-hosted projects worldwide.

What it solved

TeamsMicrosoft Teams — chat, video calls, and Office integration for workplace collaboration. juggled separate CI services, webhooks, and permissions outside their git host.

Media

  • GitHub Actions
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