GitHub Actions

Automate your workflow from idea to production

★★★★★ 4.9/5 from 18 reviews

Automation tools Testing and QA software

What is GitHub Actions?

GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD. Build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub. Make code reviews, branch management, and issue triaging work the way you want.

Pros & Cons

Pros

CI/CD automation
Deployment automation
Git integration
Automated testing
Cost effective
Custom workflows
Excellent documentation
No extra infrastructure needed
Community plugins
GitHub Marketplace
Integration with GitHub
Low maintenance
Open source support
Pull request checks
Workflow optimization

Cons

Lack of central status view

Tool Details

Categories	Automation tools, Testing and QA software
Website	github.com
Became Popular	October 16, 2018
Platforms	Web
Social	Twitter

Recent Reviews (7)

Nils Apr 18, 2022

★★★★★

I love GitHub Actions and highly credit them for being cost free for open source projects. I used it for automated testing, compiling and deploying. I also build my static website with GitHub Actions and thanks to GitHub Pages you don't have to worry about hosting.

Open source support Automated testing Deployment automation No extra infrastructure needed

Pawel Feb 27, 2025

★★★★★

Big thanks to @GitHub Actions for making my release automation seamless! Setting up CI/CD workflows for PairPods saved me countless hours and ensured consistent builds. The automatic release creation when I tag a new version has been a game-changer for my workflow.

Dimitris Nov 19, 2024

★★★★★

We leverage GitHub Actions to govern pull requests with robust checks, ensuring well-crafted environments and thorough deployment reviews. Our approach promotes reusable workflows, streamlining operations for teams. Our assistant is equipped with full context of all GitHub Marketplace actions, enabling better workflow optimization and an intuitive creation process. Additionally, we provide clear workflow run analysis—whether at a glance through the dashboard or in detail with our assistant for iterative improvements.

Custom workflows Pull request checks Workflow optimization GitHub Marketplace

Lekan Jul 27, 2024

★★★★★

This is the only product I use right now as part of my CI/CD process with Git. It offer me options ranging from running builds, automated tests, building and deploying docker images to different container registries, deploying applications to different platforms. It could be used for a lot more and It has good documentation with an easy learning curve.

Excellent documentation Automated testing Deployment automation CI/CD automation

Christina May 9, 2023

★★★★★

The documentation is clear and well organized, and I love that there are so many actions to choose from in the market. I have a lot of respect for all who contribute their own actions and look forward to exploring more of them as I continue work on my projects.

Excellent documentation Community plugins

Edoardo May 25, 2023

★★★★★

automation with github actions its quite powerful, its at least as powerful as any other ci/cd tool out there but with the bonus of github clarity and fully integrated with git

Git integration CI/CD automation

Bret Feb 14, 2023

★★★★★

I use it daily. It's great and allows more work to be done in the GitHub interface/tools. It lacks a central view of status across an org or user's repos.

Git integration Lack of central status view