GitHub Actions – Noise

Using Semantic Versioning to Simplify Release Management

Brandon Kindred — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:22:46 +0000

Any organization that manages software libraries and applications needs a standardized way to catalog, reference, import, fix bugs and update the versions of those libraries and applications. Semantic Versioning enables developers, testers, and project managers to have a more standardized process for committing code and managing different versions. It’s benefits also extend beyond development teams […]

AWS CodeBuild Managed Self-Hosted GitHub Action Runners

Matt Laver — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 10:52:45 +0000

AWS CodeBuild now supports managed self-hosted GitHub Action runners, allowing you to build powerful CI/CD capabilities right beside your code and quickly implement a build, test and deploy pipeline. Last year AWS announced that customers can define their GitHub Actions steps within any phase of a CodeBuild buildspec file but with a self-hosted runner, jobs […]

How GitHub reduced testing time for iOS apps with new runner features

Stephen Glass — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:45:06 +0000

Learn how GitHub used macOS and Apple Silicon runners for GitHub Actions to build, test, and deploy our iOS app faster.

The post How GitHub reduced testing time for iOS apps with new runner features appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Simplify Amazon EKS Deployments with GitHub Actions and AWS CodeBuild

Deepak Kovvuri — Sun, 05 May 2024 19:08:06 +0000

In this blog post, we will explore how to simplify Amazon EKS deployments with GitHub Actions and AWS CodeBuild. In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, organizations are turning to DevOps practices to drive innovation and streamline their software development and infrastructure management processes. One key practice within DevOps is Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), which […]

How GitHub uses GitHub Actions and Actions larger runners to build and test GitHub.com

Max Wagner — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 17:30:14 +0000

Recently, we’ve been working to make our CI experience better by leveraging the newly released GitHub feature, Actions larger runners, to run our CI.

The post How GitHub uses GitHub Actions and Actions larger runners to build and test GitHub.com appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Deploy serverless applications in a multicloud environment using Amazon CodeCatalyst

Deepak Kovvuri — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:41:53 +0000

Amazon CodeCatalyst is an integrated service for software development teams adopting continuous integration and deployment practices into their software development process. CodeCatalyst puts the tools you need all in one place. You can plan work, collaborate on code, and build, test, and deploy applications by leveraging CodeCatalyst Workflows. Introduction In the first post of the […]

Deploy container applications in a multicloud environment using Amazon CodeCatalyst

Pawan Shrivastava — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:41:24 +0000

In the previous post of this blog series, we saw how organizations can deploy workloads to virtual machines (VMs) in a hybrid and multicloud environment. This post shows how organizations can address the requirement of deploying containers, and containerized applications to hybrid and multicloud platforms using Amazon CodeCatalyst. CodeCatalyst is an integrated DevOps service which […]

Metrics for issues, pull requests, and discussions

Zack Koppert — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:00:04 +0000

With the new Issue Metrics GitHub Action, you can now track and monitor important metrics related to issues, pull requests, and discussions, such as time to first response, time to close, and more!

GitHub CLI project command is now generally available!

Ariel Deitcher — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 21:52:34 +0000

Level up your use of GitHub Projects on the command line and in GitHub Actions with the new project CLI command.

Running GitHub Actions in a private Subnet with AWS CodeBuild

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 11:08:55 +0000

Last week the Developer Tools team announced that AWS CodeBuild now supports GitHub Actions. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that allows you to build and test code. CodeBuild builds are defined as a collection of build commands and related settings, in YAML format, called a BuildSpec. You can now define GitHub […]

How the Grafana Alerting team scales their issue management with GitHub Projects

Mario Rodriguez — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 21:18:11 +0000

Hear from Grafana Labs' Armand Grillet about how his team uses GitHub Projects.

GitHub Actions: Introducing faster GitHub-hosted x64 macOS runners

Stephen Glass — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 16:00:04 +0000

Speed up your GitHub Actions jobs on macOS with all new, faster GitHub-hosted macOS runners for x64.

Using GitHub Actions with Amazon CodeCatalyst

Dr. Rahul Sharad Gaikwad — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 20:21:13 +0000

An Amazon CodeCatalyst workflow is an automated procedure that describes how to build, test, and deploy your code as part of a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) system. You can use GitHub Actions alongside native CodeCatalyst actions in a CodeCatalyst workflow. Introduction: In a prior post in this series, Using Workflows to Build, Test, and Deploy […]

Enabling branch deployments through IssueOps with GitHub Actions

Grant Birkinbine — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 18:03:36 +0000

What if developers want to leverage branch deployments but don't have a full ChatOps stack integrated with their repositories? We wanted to set out to find a way for all developers to be able to take advantage of branch deployments with ease, right from their GitHub repository, and so the branch-deploy Action was born!

How we tripled max concurrent jobs to boost performance of GitHub Actions

Aiqiao Yan — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:31:30 +0000

The GitHub Actions team has done lots of work to improve the performance and resource consumption of Actions on GHES in the past year.

Prevent the introduction of known vulnerabilities into your code

Courtney Claessens — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 18:13:40 +0000

The new dependency review action and API prevents the introduction of known supply chain vulnerabilities into your code.

4 ways we use GitHub Actions to build GitHub

Brian Douglas — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 15:50:13 +0000

From automating builds and releases to taking care of large-scale regression testing, here are a few ways we use GitHub Actions to build GitHub.

Integrating with GitHub Actions – CI/CD pipeline to deploy a Web App to Amazon EC2

Mahesh Biradar — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 14:48:03 +0000

Many Organizations adopt DevOps Practices to innovate faster by automating and streamlining the software development and infrastructure management processes. Beyond cultural adoption, DevOps also suggests following certain best practices and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) is among the important ones to start with. CI/CD practice reduces the time it takes to release new software […]

5 DevOps tips to speed up your developer workflow

Damian Brady — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 17:09:28 +0000

From learning YAML to scripting with Bash, here are a few simple tips for developers who want to speed up their workflows.

The best of Changelog • 2020 Edition

Michelle Mannering — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:00:32 +0000

If you haven’t seen it, the GitHub Changelog helps you keep up-to-date with all the latest features and updates to GitHub. We shipped a tonne of changes last year, and it’s impossible to blog about