The article presents ten lesser-known but highly useful GitHub Actions that can enhance workflow automation, focusing on tasks like YAML validation, markdown link checking, auto-assignment of PRs, commit message linting, dependency caching, Slack notifications, license compliance checking, PR size labeling, security scanning, and Jira integration.
Conor Barber explores the evolution of infrastructure from YAML configurations to pipelines-as-code, focusing on modern CI/CD systems like GitHub Actions, GitLab, and CircleCI. The presentation was given at QCon San Francisco 2023, discussing how moving away from YAML can improve scalability, cost efficiency, and developer experience.
