Use security best practices with GitHub Actions, and use GitHub Actions to improve the security of your software supply chain.

You can host your own runners to run workflows in a highly customizable environment.

You can configure workflows to run on a schedule or to run when certain events happen.

You can use GitHub's runners to execute your GitHub Actions workflows.

You can use exit codes to set the status of an action. GitHub displays statuses to indicate passing or failing actions.

Get a high-level overview of GitHub Actions workflows, including triggers, syntax, and advanced features.

You can configure the self-hosted runner application as a service to automatically start the runner application when the machine starts.

You can monitor your self-hosted runners to view their activity and diagnose common issues.

When creating a Dockerfile for a Docker container action, you should be aware of how some Docker instructions interact with GitHub Actions and an action's metadata file.

In this guide, you'll learn how to build a composite action.