Finding existing actions
As you have learned in previous chapters, using existing actions is a very efficient way to use GitHub Actions without the need to write the code for them. The GitHub Actions community is regularly contributing new actions to the GitHub Marketplace daily. There are over 7,000 actions that you can browse through, and it is likely that you will find something to help you with your CI/CD tasks.
Important note
You can browse GitHub Marketplace without being logged in to your GitHub user account. You will need to be logged in to add an existing action to your workflow, however.
The next steps will guide you in searching for actions within Marketplace:
- To start browsing existing actions, navigate to https://github.com/marketplace.
- Then, click on Actions, on the left-hand side.
You can navigate the many pages of over 7,000 existing actions, or filter the results by category, such as Continuous integration, Dependency management, as illustrated...
