If you already use GitHub Actions, this article will show you more interesting and useful ways to use it. By the time I finished writing, I had added several more workflows to my repositories. 1. Passing Parameters When a Workflow Runs When a workflow runs, you can allow parameters to be entered on the GitHub Actions page to control the execution logic.

In the previous post, Using ChatOps to Improve the R&D Process, providing preview links for Pull Requests through ChatOps improved our agility. This post describes how to implement this feature quickly. 1. Step One: Configure a Trigger 1.1 Choose a Trigger GitHub has three kinds of Workflow triggers: scheduled, manual, and automatic.

1. What GitHub Actions Is In an earlier post I put the CI capabilities GitLab provides into practice — click here to see. The advantages of using GitLab are that it can be deployed privately, it allows an unlimited number of private repositories, its CI configuration is simple, and it can connect to self-hosted Runners.