GitHub Actions Best Practices
GitHub Actions best practices for CI/CD workflows, caching, reusable workflows, security, and efficient pipeline design.
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Read time
- 1 min read
- Version
- v1.0.0
- Confidence
- established
- Last updated
Quick Reference
GitHub Actions: Use actions/cache for dependencies. Pin action versions with SHA. Use reusable workflows for DRY. Parallel jobs where possible. Store secrets in GitHub Secrets. Use environments for deployment gates. OIDC for cloud auth (no long-lived tokens).
Use When
- Setting up CI/CD pipelines
- Automating builds and deployments
- Creating GitHub Actions workflows
- Optimizing pipeline performance
Skip When
- Other CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, GitLab CI)
- Simple scripts without automation needs
GitHub Actions Best Practices
GitHub Actions best practices for CI/CD workflows, caching, reusable workflows, security, and efficient pipeline design.