simple-media-converter VS starter-workflows

Simple Media Converter is a Telegram bot created for easy media conversions in my university days when lessons and submissions were mostly online due to covid. Initially, the bot was deployed via Screen and I had to do manual deployments after every code change. When I moved to Docker, I automated the entire deployment flow with GitHub Actions to simplify this process. You can find the workflow files on the project repository.

For those who are interested to take things further, you may also wish to extend the functionalities of the bot into a project. In case you need some inspirations, I've open-sourced a handful of Telegram bots such as TeleQR, Simple Media Converter and Simple Transcriptions.

GitHub Actions are automated routines that run on GitHub's sandboxed virtual machine servers, called "runners", and are (probably) free for your Public open source projects!

GitHub Actions

To realize continuous integration in practice, we rely on version control systems(VCS) such as Git, code repositories such as GitHub, and build automation tools such as GitHub Actions.

GitHub, as one of the leading web-based Git repository hosting service, provides a powerful suite of CI/CD tools in the form of GitHub Actions. These are directly integrated into the platform which empowers developers to increase the speed, efficiency and reliability of delivering products. In this brief article, we will take a look at what CI/CD is, why we should use it, as well as some of its applications in my projects.

GitHub Actions is a modern CI/CD tool integrated natively on GitHub. Itenables the rapid automation of build, test, deployment, and other custom workflows on GitHub with no need for external tools.

GitHub Actions is GitHub's CI/CD solution. You can use it to run automated tasks each time you change your code. Although the platform lacks a built-in Kubernetes integration, third-party plugins such as Azure's Deploy to Kubernetes Cluster action can automate deployments and manage different rollout strategies.

GitHub Actions is a feature-rich CI/CD platform embedded within GitHub, enabling developers to automate, customize, and execute software development workflows directly in their repositories. An Action inside GitHub Actions is a discrete unit of automation that performs a specific task within a workflow. All the Actions are reusable, and there are many to choose from. You can even create your own reusable ones.

actions/starter-workflows

The real power of using PHP code-quality tools is when it’s added to your continuous integration process, which means it automatically checks the code every time someone makes a push or pull request to your project repo. In this section, we'll be looking at how to do just that. GitHub actions is available for free so we'll use it for demo purposes. Note that there are some limits to private repos, so set your test repo to public if you can.