10 of our favorite actions for GitHub Actions
Blog post from Octopus Deploy
GitHub Actions has rapidly become a valuable tool in the continuous integration landscape, enabling users to automate testing, building, and deployment tasks directly within their repositories. With a plethora of community-created actions available, developers can enhance their workflows by utilizing tools like Test Reporter for integrating test results, Build and Push Docker Images for creating and deploying multi-platform Docker builds, and Setup PHP for configuring PHP environments. Other notable actions include GitTools for semantic versioning, Action Automatic Releases for streamlined release management, and PullPreview for deploying live environments for code review. Additionally, the GitHub Marketplace offers Octopus Deploy actions, enhancing deployment automation further. Installing these actions is straightforward, requiring users to find, copy, and paste the relevant code into their repository's configuration files. For those seeking more tailored solutions, the GitHub Marketplace provides a wide range of additional actions to explore.