Advanced use cases

After going through the guided tour from Basics of Github Actions, you should have a general grasp of how Github Actions works and how workflows are constructed.

Now, you might be wondering how Github Actions can be used beyond the basics of building CI/CD pipelines.

In this section, we will focus on discussing several advanced use cases of Github Actions. This is by no means an exhaustive list of what Github Actions can achieve, but it hopes to broaden how you think of Github Actions and use Github Actions.

Rather than having a central example application like Basics of Github Actions, we will be presenting each use case as individual examples and linked to some live repository to better illustrate how it has been used. We trust that you have the understanding and mental models developed to combine these use cases with what we have previously covered to create infinitely many powerful workflows!

We will cover the following use cases:

1. Creating pollers with Github Actions

2. Using Github script inside workflows

3. Executing third-party scripts

4. Reusing workflows