Choosing what your workflow does

Use workflows to run multiple jobs.

You can use and customize pre-written actions to power your workflow.

You can script with GitHub CLI in GitHub Actions workflows.

You can use GitHub Actions workflows to run scripts.

Learn how to create secrets at the repository, environment, and organization levels for GitHub Actions workflows.

GitHub sets default variables for each GitHub Actions workflow run. You can also set custom variables for use in a single workflow or multiple workflows.

You can define outputs to pass information from one job to another.

Define the default settings that will apply to all jobs in the workflow, or all steps in a job.

Specify a deployment environment in your workflow.

Create a matrix to define variations for each job.