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Automating Deployments with GitHub Actions

Learn how to set up a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions to automate your tests and deployments from a single push to your main branch.

GitHub Actions lets you automate your development workflows. ## Core concepts ### Workflow A set of jobs triggered by an event. ### Jobs Series of steps running on a runner. ### Steps Individual actions within a job. ## CI/CD example ```yaml name: CI/CD Pipeline on: push: branches: [main] jobs: test: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Run tests run: npm test deploy: needs: test runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - name: Deploy run: ./deploy.sh ``` ## Benefits - Native integration with GitHub - Actions marketplace - Free hosted runners - Secure secrets GitHub Actions dramatically simplifies your CI/CD pipelines.