Build your first GitHub action: Step-by-step guide

Paul Gilzow, a Developer Relations Engineer at Platform.sh, delivered a presentation at SymfonyCon on building custom GitHub Actions for DevOps automation. Although not an expert on GitHub Actions, Paul shared insights from his 18-month experience creating and maintaining custom actions and workflows to automate team responsibilities. The session, condensed from a three-hour workshop to 35 minutes, covered essential concepts such as workflows, events, runners, jobs, steps, and actions, along with practical demonstrations on building workflows and custom actions. Emphasizing the importance of understanding these components to effectively use GitHub Actions, Paul also highlighted potential pitfalls, such as context-related code injection risks. The presentation concluded with a real-world example of using GitHub Actions for visual regression testing on pull requests, demonstrating how to automate complex tasks efficiently.

Use this post, company, and trend context to find content marketing opportunities, perform competitive analysis, or address product feature gaps via the Plushcap MCP server or the Plushcap API.