Awesome Actions

A curated list of awesome things related to GitHub Actions.

Actions are triggered by GitHub platform events directly in a repo and run on-demand workflows either on Linux, Windows or macOS virtual machines or inside a container in response. With GitHub Actions you can automate your workflow from idea to production.

Contents

• Official Resources
  • Workflow Examples
  • Official Actions
  • Create your Actions
• Community Resources
  • GitHub Tools and Management
  • Collection of Actions
  • Utility
  • Static Analysis
  • Monitoring
  • Pull Requests
  • GitHub Pages
  • Notifications and Messages
  • Deployment
  • External Services
  • Frontend Tools
  • Machine Learning Ops
  • Build
  • Cheat Sheet
• Tutorials

Official Resources

• Official Site
• Official Community Forum Board
• Official Documentation
• Official Actions organization
  • actions/virtual-environments - GitHub Actions virtual environments.
  • actions/runner - The Runner for GitHub Actions.
• GitHub Blog Announcement

Workflow Examples

• actions/starter-workflows - Starter workflow management.
• actions/example-services - Example workflows using service containers.

Official Actions

Workflow Tool Actions

Tool actions for your workflow.

• actions/github - Wraps actions-toolkit into an Action for common GitHub automations.
• actions/checkout - Setup your repository on your workflow.
• actions/upload-artifact - Upload artifacts from your workflow.
• actions/download-artifact - Download artifacts from your build.
• actions/cache - Cache dependencies and build outputs in GitHub Actions.
• actions/github-script - Write a script for GitHub API and the workflow contexts.

Actions for GitHub Automation

Automate management for issues, pull requests, and releases.

• actions/create-release - An Action to create releases via the GitHub Release API.
• actions/upload-release-asset - An Action to upload a release asset via the GitHub Release API.
• actions/first-interaction - An action for filtering pull requests and issues from first-time contributors.
• actions/stale - Marks issues and pull requests that have not had recent interaction.
• actions/labeler - An action for automatically labelling pull requests.

Setup Actions

Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of your programming languages.

• actions/setup-node: Node.js
• actions/setup-python: Python
• actions/setup-go: Go
• actions/setup-dotnet: .NET core sdk
• actions/setup-haskell: Haskell (GHC and Cabal)
• actions/setup-java: Java
• actions/setup-ruby: Ruby
• actions/setup-elixir: Elixir

Create your Actions

JavaScript and TypeScript Actions

• actions/toolkit - The GitHub ToolKit for developing GitHub Actions.
• actions/hello-world-javascript-action - A template to demonstrate how to build a JavaScript action.
• actions/javascript-action - Create a JavaScript Action.
• actions/typescript-action - Create a TypeScript Action.
• actions/http-client - A lightweight HTTP client optimized for use with actions, TypeScript with generics and async await.

Docker Container Actions

• actions/hello-world-docker-action - A template to demonstrate how to build a Docker action.
• actions/container-toolkit-action - Template repo for creating container actions using actions/toolkit.

Community Resources

GitHub Tools and Management

• Declaratively setup GitHub Labels
• Action to sync GitHub labels in the declarative way
• Add releases to GitHub
• Publish a docker image to Dockerhub
• Create an issue using content from a file
• Publish GitHub Releases with Assets
• GitHub Project Automation+ - Automate GitHub Project cards with any webhook event.
• Run GitHub Actions Locally with a web interface
• Build and Publish Android debug APK
• Generate sequential build numbers for GitHub Actions
• Push Git changes to GitHub repository without authentication difficulties
• Generate release notes based on your events
• Create a GitHub wiki page based on the provided markdown file
• Label your Pull Requests auto-magically (using committed files)
• Add Label to your Pull Requests based on the author team name
• Manually trigger your GitHub Actions from a UI
• Get a list of file changes with PR/Push
• Use private actions in any workflow
• Label Your Issues Using the Issue's Contents
• Rollback a GitHub Release
• Lock Closed Issues and Pull Requests after a Period of Inactivity
• Get Commit Difference Count Between Two Branches

Collection of Actions

• Use HashiCorp's Terraform
• GitHub Actions for Yarn 1
• GitHub Actions for Yarn 2
• GitHub Actions for Golang
• GitHub Actions for R and accompanying #rstats package
• GitHub Actions for WordPress
• GitHub Actions for Composer
• GitHub Actions for Flutter
• GitHub Actions for PHP
• GitHub Actions for Rust
• GitHub Actions for Android
• GitHub Actions for Logtalk and Prolog
• GitHub Actions for Deno
• GitHub Actions for Unity
• Octions - GitHub Actions for GitHub REST API

Utility

• Setup ssh-agent - Run ssh-agent with additional SSH keys to access private repositories.
• GitHub Actions Badges for your README
• GitHub Actions for Python project with poetry
• GitHub Actions to compile LaTeX documents
• Update Maxmind Databases
• Debug with SSH over tmate - Debug the Action directly by providing a SSH connection.
• Unlock git-crypt files
• Golang CGO cross compiler
• Run your job on another architecture: arm32, aarch64 and others
• Generate a table of contents
• Automatically add Label or Assignee to an Issue
• Action to send LGTM reaction as image or GIF when we say lgtm
• Generate build numbers across multiple scopes
• Publish GitHub release artifacts
• Jekyll Diff Action - Diffs the built Jekyll site after a change, and comments the result back to GitHub.
• Branch Protection Bot - Temporarily disable and re-enable "Include administrators" option in branch protection.
• Wait for commit statuses - Wait until all statuses and checks are successful or any of them has failed and set its status output accordingly.
• Get Latest Tag - Get the previous tag from git.
• Create Milestone - Create a new open milestone given the title and description.
• Close Milestone - Close the given milestone.
• Action to enforce branch naming rules
• Expose slug of some GitHub variables
• awesome-lint as a GitHub Action
• Edit JSON File
• Build Slate documentation
• Read Properties - Read values from .properties files.
• Write Properties - Write values to .properties files.
• Apply templates with Jinja2 - Use the Jinja2 template engine to generate files from templates.
• Has Changes - Check if there are code changes from previous steps.
• Mind Your Language Action - Detect offensive comments in issues and pull requests, and warn senders.

Environments

• Create an envfile
• Export global environment variables for succeeding build steps
• Programmatically set environment variables for use in subsequent steps
• Install Conda environments for Python

Dependencies

• Install NPM dependencies with caching

Semantic Versioning

• Next SemVers - Output the next version for major, minor, and patch version based on the given semver version.
• Get latest SemVer and branch name given a search string
• Cut Release Branch - Cuts a release branch given a branch prefix and optional semantic version.
• Increment Semantic Version - Bump a given semantic version (SemVer), depending on given release type.

Static Analysis

• PHPStan Static code analyzer Action
• GraphQL Inspector Action
• PowerShell static analysis with PSScriptAnalyzer
• Run tfsec, with reviewdog output on the PR

Testing

• Snyk Test Action
• Run Tests through Puppeteer, the Headless Chrome Node API
• xUnit Slack Reporter: Sends summary of tests from xUnit reports to a Slack channel
• Run codeception tests
• Run TestCafe tests
• Run Unity tests
• Run Cypress E2E tests
• Test Ansible roles with Molecule

Linting

• PHP Code fixer Action
• Runs Hadolint against a Dockerfile within a repository
• Run ESLint, with reviewdog output on the PR
• JavaScript-based linter for *.workflow files
• Lint terraform files using tflint, with reviewdog output on the PR
• autopep8: Automatically formats Python code to conform to the PEP 8 style guide
• Run localheinz/composer-normalize to ensure your PHP project has a normalized composer.json
• Run Go lint checks on PR event
• Node.js - Automatically run the format and/or lint script used by the package
• Stylelinter - GitHub Action that runs stylelint
• Run stylelint, with reviewdog output on the PR
• PyCodeStyle Action - A GitHub Action that leaves a comment on your PR with pycodestyle (autopep8) feedback
• wemake-python-styleguide - The strictest and most opinionated python linter ever, with optional reviewdog output on the PR
• Run TSLint with status checks and file diff annotations
• Lint Pull Request commits with commitlint
• Run vint, with reviewdog output on the PR
• Run mispell, with reviewdog output on the PR
• Run golangci-lint, with reviewdog output on the PR
• Run shellcheck, with reviewdog output on the PR
• Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing in your markdown docs
• Run dotenv-linter - Lints your .env files like a charm, with optional reviewdog output on the PR
• Run dotenv-linter, with reviewdog output on the PR
• Show and auto-fix linting errors for many programming languages
• PHP_CodeSniffer With Annotations
• Linter for markdown (with presets)
• Stylelint problem matcher to create annotations
• Run sqlcheck on the PR to identifies anti-patterns in SQL queries

Security

• A vulnerability scanner for your docker images
• Automatically approve and merge Dependabot updates
• Run dlint security linter on your Python code
• AWS Secrets Manager Actions - Define AWS Secrets Manager secrets to environment values.
• Linting your AWS IAM policy documents for correctness and security issues
• Secret Spreader - Not an action per se, but a tool to manage Actions Secrets across a list of repositories.

Code Coverage

• Scan code with SonarCloud
• Send your code coverage to codecov.io
• Publishing code coverage to CodeClimate
• Update repository go report card

Monitoring

• Audit a webpage with Google Chrome's Lighthouse tests
• Runs Lighthouse and posts results to PRs and Slack
• Run Lighthouse in CI using GitHub Actions
• Continuous Benchmarking and Benchmark Visualization for Go

Pull Requests

• Set pull request reviewers based on assignees
• Open or update pull request on branch push (with branch selection)
• Automatically rebase a PR
• Label pull request once it has a specified number of approvals
• Add labels to Pull Request based on matched file patterns
• Auto approve pull requests
• Automatically add reviewers to pull request based on the configuration file
• Add labels to Pull Request based on branch name patterns
• Add labels to Pull Request based on total size of the diff
• Automatically merge Pull Requests that are ready
• Verify pull requests contain a ticket reference
• Create a pull request for changes to your repository in the actions workspace
• Pull Request Lint
• ChatOps For Pull Requests
• Prefix title and body of a PR based on text extracted from branch name
• Block Autosquash Commits
• Automatically Bump and Tag on Merge
• Automatically Update PRs with Outdated Checks and Squash and Merge the Ones Matching All Branch Protections
• Merge Pal - automatically update and merge pull requests
• Enforce naming convention on pull request title
• Pull Request Stuck Notifier
• Lint pull request name with commitlint (Awesome if you squash merge !)
• Block PR merges when Checks for target branches are failing

GitHub Pages

• Deploy a Zola site to GitHub Pages
• Build Hugo static content site and publish it to gh-pages branch
• Build a Jekyll site—with Custom Jekyll Plugins & Build Scripts—and deploy it back to the Gh-Pages Branch
• Google Dataset Search Metadata - And other schema.org extractors to make datasets discoverable from GitHub pages.
• GitHub Actions for deploying to GitHub Pages with Static Site Generators
• GitHub Action for Hexo
• Deploy Google Analytics stats to GitHub Pages
• A Jupyter Notebook Blogging Platform Powered by GitHub Actions, Pages and Jekyll

Notifications and Messages

• Send a Discord notification
• Post a Slack message as a bot
• Send an SMS from GitHub Actions using Nexmo
• Send a Telegram Message
• Send a File or Text Message to Discord (custom define color, username or avatar)
• Collaborate on tweets using pull requests
• Send a Push Notification via Push by Techulus
• Send email with SendGrid
• Send a Push Notification via Join
• New package version checker for npm
• New package version checker for NuGet
• New package version checker for Gradle
• Send a Push Notification via Pushbullet
• Create an Outlook Calendar Event using Microsoft Graph

Deployment

• Deploy to Netlify
• Deploy a Probot App using Actions
• Deploy a playlist to Spotify
• Deploy VS Code extensions with vsce
• Purge Cloudflare cache after updating a website
• Deploy your DNS configuration using DNS Control
• Deploy a Theme to Shopify
• Trigger multiple GitLab CI Pipeline
• Trigger multiple Jenkins Jobs
• GitHub Action for Homebrew Tap
• Copy files and artifacts via SSH
• Executing remote ssh commands
• Publish a Python distribution package to PyPI
• Deploy Static Website to Azure Storage
• Cross platform Chocolatey CLI to build and publish packages
• Deploy iOS Pod Library to Cocoapods
• GitHub Action for TencentCloud Serverless
• Publish npm (pre)releases
• Deploy a static site to Surge.sh
• GitHub Action for GoReleaser, a release automation tool for Go projects
• FTP Deploy Action, Deploys a GitHub project to a FTP server using GitHub actions
• Publish Article to Dev.to
• Action For Semantic Release
• Deploy a Collection to Ansible Galaxy
• Publish module to Puppet Forge
• Build and publish Electron apps
• Publish a Maven package
• Build and deploy a theme to Ghost CMS
• Deploy an Ansible role to Ansible Galaxy
• Publish one or more JS modules to a registry
• Publish a package with 2FA using Slack
• Serialize Workflow Runs in Continuous Deployment Pipelines

Docker

• Update a Docker Hub repository description from README.md
• Publish Docker Images to the GitHub Package Registry (GPR)
• Update a repository's "Full description" on Docker Hub
• Build and publish docker images to any registry using Kaniko

Kubernetes

• Deploy to any Cloud or Kubernetes Using Pulumi
• Deploy to Kubernetes with kubectl
• Get Kubeconfig File From Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

AWS

• Sync/upload a directory to an AWS S3 bucket
• Deploy Lambda code to an existing function

Terraform

• Generate terraform documentation - Uses terraform-docs to generate docs for terraform modules.
• An example of using Terraform to validate and apply GitHub administration

External Services

• Use a Jenkinsfile
• GitHub Action for Firebase
• GitHub Action for Contentful Migration CLI
• GitHub Actions for Pixela (a-know/pi)
• GitHub Action for Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Upload files to any OpenStack Swift service provider
• GitHub Action for sending Stack Overflow posts to Slack
• Assume AWS role

Frontend Tools

• Execute Gradle task
• JS Build Actions - Run Grunt or Gulp build tasks and commit file changes.
• GitHub Action for Gatsby CLI
• Runs a WebPageTest audit and prints the results as commit comment
• GitHub Actions for Hugo extended
• Generate OG Image - Generate customisable open graph images from Markdown files.
• GitHub Actions for mdBook

Machine Learning Ops

• Submitting Argo Workflows (Cloud Agnostic)
• Submitting Argo Workflows to GKE
• Query Experiment Tracking Results From Weights & Biases
• Run Parameterized Jupyter Notebooks
• Compile, Deploy and Run Kubeflow Pipeline

Build

• run-cmake - Multi platform action to build C/C++ software with CMake and Ninja.
• run-vcpkg - Multi platform action to build and install C/C++ dependencies with vcpkg.
• Build Go applications for multiplatform
• Generate ~/.m2/settings.xml for Maven builds

Cheat Sheet

• GitHub Actions Branding Cheat Sheet

Tutorials

• Continuous deployment of Next.js app with Up
• Converting Docker-based Actions to JavaScript/TypeScript
• GitHub Actions CI for Swift/iOS Projects
• Working with GitHub Actions
• GitHub Actions for Rails Developers
• GitHub Actions Advent Calendar
• Zero Downtime Laravel Deployments with GitHub Actions

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