GitHub Actions Workflows: Tips and Best Practices for Streamlining Your CI/CD Pipelines

As the landscape of development and continuous integration evolves, GitHub Actions has emerged as a powerful tool for automating workflows directly within the GitHub ecosystem. Whether you’re replacing outdated GitHub apps or crafting new custom workflows, mastering GitHub Actions can significantly enhance your development efficiency and code quality.

In this talk, we will explore various tips and techniques for creating efficient GitHub Actions workflows, sharing insights and practical examples from recent projects. This session will cover a range of topics, from managing concurrent workflows and task execution order to using reusable workflows and caching strategies. Whether you’re new to GitHub Actions or looking to refine your existing setup, this talk offers valuable insights to help you optimize your CI/CD pipelines.

What you’ll learn from this session

After this informative session, people will leave with actionable strategies to enhance GitHub Action workflows, streamline development processes, and ensure CI/CD pipelines are as efficient and reliable as possible.

Key discussion points will cover a brief introduction to GitHub Actions, parallel and sequential tasks, dispatchable and reusable workflows, composite actions, scheduled works, debugging workflow runs, caching strategies and more.