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title: GitHub Actions Templates
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# GitHub Actions Templates

> Create production-ready GitHub Actions workflows for automated testing, building, and…

A library of production-ready GitHub Actions workflows for automated testing, building, and deploying across tech stacks. It applies CI/CD principles: shift left, fail fast, pipeline as code, and defense in depth: to real YAML templates for matrix testing, Docker build-and-push, Kubernetes deploy, and security scanning. Every template uses pinned action versions, scoped permissions, and dependency caching out of the box.

## Use cases
- Setting up automated lint, test, and coverage on every push and PR
- Building Docker images and pushing them to a container registry
- Deploying to Kubernetes clusters with verification steps
- Running matrix builds across multiple OS and language versions
- Adding security scanning with Trivy and Snyk to the pipeline
- Gating production deploys behind environment approvals

## Benefits
- Ship a working CI/CD pipeline in minutes from battle-tested templates
- Catch bugs and vulnerabilities early with shift-left lint, test, and security scans
- Speed up builds with dependency caching and parallel matrix jobs
- Harden your supply chain with pinned versions, scoped tokens, and approval gates

## What’s included
- Test workflow template with matrix versions and coverage upload
- Docker build-and-push workflow with metadata tagging and GHA caching
- Kubernetes deploy workflow with rollout status and verification steps
- Reusable workflow_call template for DRY pipelines across repos
- Security scanning workflow with Trivy SARIF upload and Snyk integration
- Production deploy with environment approval gates and failure notifications

## Who it’s for
DevOps engineers and developers who want secure, reusable GitHub Actions pipelines without writing CI/CD YAML from scratch.

## How it runs
The workflow construction order the skill follows when it builds a GitHub Actions pipeline:
1. Designs triggers shift-left: lint and unit tests run on pull_request before anything expensive, fail-fast matrix strategy stops sibling jobs on first failure, and the needs chain guarantees no build starts on failing tests.
2. Speeds up the test job with caching and matrices: setup-node with the npm cache, version matrices (Node 18 and 20, or OS by Python version grids) so compatibility breaks surface in CI rather than in user reports.
3. Builds and pushes images immutably: docker metadata-action derives tags from the commit SHA and semver, build cache rides on type=gha, every action is pinned to a version (checkout@v4, never @latest) against supply chain drift.
4. Layers security in depth: minimal permissions scopes on GITHUB_TOKEN, Trivy filesystem scan uploading SARIF to GitHub Security, Snyk on dependencies, so no single control is the only line of defense.
5. Extracts reusable workflows: shared test patterns become workflow_call definitions with typed inputs and explicit secrets, so fifteen repos reference one workflow instead of carrying fifteen drifting copies.
6. Gates production with environments: the deploy job binds to a protected environment requiring approval, and a notification step reports the outcome to the team channel on success or failure.

## FAQ
### I deploy to a plain VPS, not Kubernetes, are these templates still relevant?
Yes. The test, Docker build-and-push, matrix, and security-scanning workflows are deployment-target agnostic; the Kubernetes deploy is just one template in the library.

### There's no shortage of free CI YAML on blog posts, what comes pre-wired in these templates that those snippets leave out?
Every template ships with pinned action versions, scoped permissions, dependency caching, and environment approval gates already wired in. Supply-chain hardening and build speed are the default, not an afterthought you bolt on later.

### Does it cover GitLab CI or Jenkins too?
No, this library is GitHub Actions only. There's a separate patterns product for GitLab, and Jenkins is out of scope entirely.

## Price
$15, one-time, no subscription. VAT included.

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