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What is GitHub Actions?

A CI/CD and workflow automation platform built into GitHub that runs jobs in response to repository events using YAML-defined workflows stored in .github/workflows/.

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What file extension do GitHub Actions workflow files use?

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What is a workflow in GitHub Actions?

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What is GitHub Actions?

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A CI/CD and workflow automation platform built into GitHub that runs jobs in response to repository events using YAML-defined workflows stored in .github/workflows/.

What file extension do GitHub Actions workflow files use?

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.yaml or .yml, stored under .github/workflows/ in the repository.

What is a workflow in GitHub Actions?

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An automated, configurable process defined by a YAML file that runs one or more jobs and is triggered by events.

What is a job in GitHub Actions?

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A set of steps in a workflow that execute on the same runner; jobs run in parallel by default unless dependencies are declared with needs:.

What is a step in GitHub Actions?

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An individual task within a job, either a shell command (run:) or an invocation of an action (uses:).

What is a runner in GitHub Actions?

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The server that executes a workflow job; can be GitHub-hosted (Ubuntu, Windows, macOS) or self-hosted.

What are the two categories of runners GitHub provides by default?

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GitHub-hosted runners (managed by GitHub) and self-hosted runners (you manage).

What on clause is required to start a workflow block?

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on: — it lists the events that trigger the workflow.

Name three events that can trigger a workflow.

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push, pull_request, and workflow_dispatch are common triggers.

What does workflow_dispatch do?

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Allows a workflow to be triggered manually from the Actions tab, the REST API, or the CLI.

What does on: schedule allow?

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Runs a workflow on a cron schedule using POSIX cron syntax evaluated against UTC.

Give an example of a cron expression that runs daily at 02:30 UTC.

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on: schedule: - cron: '30 2 * * *'

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