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by colemorrison 2509 days ago
This "sounds" interesting, and I'd absolutely love to manage ci/cd in github. Can anyone point me to some clear docs or articles on its usage? The blog post and developer guide on actions reads like some hybrid of a marketing page and a plain index of terms. Most of the examples on workflows/actions documentation and the like are in HCL which is being deprecated.
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Once you’re in the beta, you’ll be able to get started by picking from a varying list of templates. In the meantime, those templates are actually hosted here: https://github.com/actions/starter-workflows. Depending on what you’re interested in setting up, this page might be helpful in getting started. https://help.github.com/en/categories/automating-your-workfl...
THIS. I have yet to even be able to get "echo 'hello world'" running in a container. I want to love this but I cant figure out how to use the damn thing. I don't see any action in the visual builder to "run a shell command" or even access a "Linux container".