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Explain where you can use GitHub actions within GitHub

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Explain where you can use GitHub actions within GitHub

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- [Instructor] The main idea here is that we're operating within the scope of a repo, but even from there, if you have standard practices that cross repos, you can centralize a lot of your testing and deployment and stuff by creating reusable workflows in an organizational level .github repo, it's amazing. But that's beyond our scope. PRs? Definitely. The whole notion of shifting left is having things that might break in your code and in your service surface as early in the lifecycle as possible. You can automate these checks and requirements in PRs. Issues? Same thing there. In fact, I'm going to call out in my demo, I'm going to do a demo, that involves issues that should be useful. Automating actions based on issue events, assignments, labels, closing issues. Let's keep going. Triggering workflows based on branch activity. Well, that's the most common scenario. The 80% would be push and pull requests, as you would expect, that would trigger a workflow. Tags and releases…

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