Publishing a Custom Go GitHub Action
Explore how to publish a custom GitHub Action written in Go to the GitHub Marketplace. Understand the requirements for public actions, set up automated semantic versioning and release announcement workflows, and learn to share your action with the GitHub community effectively.
The superpower of GitHub Actions is the community and the actions that the community publishes to the GitHub Marketplace. Think about how much more work we would have had to do in the previous sections if we didn’t have community actions available for use. Our workflows would have had to start from first principles, involving authoring long, tedious scripts to complete tasks that we were able to express in a handful of YAML instead.
Open source software is not only about having access to free software but also about giving back to the community. We are going to learn how to give back to the GitHub Actions community through publishing an action to GitHub Marketplace. This will enable the entire user community of GitHub to benefit from it. ...