🎢 Rolling into July 🍹 - Actions Community Check-in 🤝

[Akash1134]

🌞 Greetings, everyone! Welcome to our latest Actions check-in. I hope you're making great progress on your goals 🎯 - just like we are! June was an incredible month filled with a plethora of exciting Actions ships. But before we dive into those, let's take a moment to shine a spotlight on some remarkable community members who have truly stood out in the past month.

💌 From the Community - Shoutout 📢 to these members

• 💖 Thank You! @tcortega for helping @ianfirme use Secrets in a public repository. Kudos for the Short and Simple response.

• 👀 In our community, numerous old discussions exist with valuable contributions, making it challenging to ensure the relevance of answers. One noteworthy instance is @pratyushly's valuable update ⭐ on effectively running a Job based on conditional output from another Job. Explore this insightful contribution to enhance your understanding. 💯

• A Big Shoutout 📢 to @nirav-gajera for sharing their expertise with the community, answering how to add a directory to GITHUB_PATH when creating a JavaScript action. 👏

• There are a ton of old discussions in the community and sometimes it is hard to make the answers are still relevant. One such example is @pratyushly updating us all on how to best run a Job based on the output of another job conditionally.

• Are you eager to enhance your skills with GitHub Actions and Get Actions Certified? 🎓@Michael-AngeloK shared a similar query and deserves our gratitude for uncovering key details about the certification process. These findings will undoubtedly assist numerous other aspiring individuals. 👏

⛵ Sail into action with the latest ships 🚢 in Actions!

1️⃣ GitHub Actions Runner General availability 🆕

Auto-scaling self-hosted runners using the Actions runner controller and runner scale sets is now generally available.

Learn more about scalling self hosted runners and share your feedback with us in this discussion.

2️⃣ New tool to secure your GitHub Actions 🔐

Introducing a new tool to monitor and control the permissions of the repository token for GitHub Actions.

We are excited 🤩 to release a public beta of actions-permissions, a tool which monitors your GitHub Actions workflows and recommends the minimum permissions required to run them.

3️⃣ Update on OIDC integration with AWS ♻️

We have received customers reporting errors with Actions’ OIDC integration with AWS.
This happens for customers who are pinned to a single intermediary thumbprint from the Certificate Authority (CA) of the Actions SSL certificate.

Read more about the update.

📚 Good Reads 🔖

Wanna learn more about GitHub Actions and the world of CI/CD? Here are a few resources to bookmark 🔖

• Learn how to build organization-wide governance and re-use them for CI/CD and automation with GitHub Actions.
• Love ❤️ reading📚 ? Love GitHub! Discover 🌐 some of the top-notch content to consume right in the GitHub Community, where we share blogs, articles, best practices, and tips & tricks from GitHub employees and users. This Week - 👓 Learn more about the scalable Continuous Integration (CI) patterns that can help your team grow significantly.
• Each month, the ReadMe project showcases some exciting projects that people are building on GitHub to solve the world’s most intractable problems. We feature these projects, and we're getting a lot of love from all of you, proving these projects are Reader's Delight! Check out some of them here.

That's all for now folks. Got feedback or feature requests for anything Actions? ❓Post them on community and share enhancements you’d like to see on the product. Till next time! 🚀