Chapter 6: Marketplace – Finding Existing Actions and Publishing Your Own

You have learned so much! The knowledge you have gathered thus far will allow you to confidently use GitHub Actions to implement creative solutions that will help improve your continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) tasks and workflows.

In previous chapters, you had the chance to write workflow files to incorporate existing actions and, most recently, you had the experience of writing actions from scratch using JavaScript, Docker, and composite run steps—way to go!

Now, it is time to explore the next step in using GitHub Actions: connecting with and participating in the community of developers who use GitHub Actions. GitHub Marketplace allows anyone to publish paid or free GitHub applications and GitHub actions. This chapter will walk you through finding existing actions that you can incorporate into your workflow, as well as publishing actions that you have created and want to...