Github Actions 101 and the Checkout Action
Github Actions 101 and the Checkout Action Choosing a continuos integration tool if you are an undecided person is never easy, there are alot options and lots of strong cases, so I totally get if you are currently looking and still haven’t made up your mind. On this post I will talk a bit about my encounter with Github Actions and I will also provide a very small use case example. Not sure if this can help anyone to decide but come along, it’s going to be fun (😬). I first used Github Actions on my previous job. We didn’t have a CI structure so we thought that it would be nice to have one, we were doing alot of automation and that felt like the natural thing to do. Back then I did some research and listed some candidates for the CI tools. We first tried to use Jenkins for a while but the amount of setup didn’t make sense for us and we never quite got it to work properly. It’s known that Jenkins is really good and can do alot, but we had a small team and system and I felt like the t...