GitHub-native CI/CD that runs workflows triggered by repo events. Hosted runners across Linux, macOS, and Windows or self-hosted on your infrastructure. Tight integration with GitHub Copilot for AI-assisted workflow authoring, Copilot Autofix for security findings, and Copilot agentic PR reviews. The default deploy plumbing for any team already on GitHub.
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The default CI/CD runner for any repo on GitHub. Workflows are YAML files committed in .github/workflows, and the marketplace ecosystem of pre-built actions covers everything from cloud auth to release publishing. The 2024–2026 evolution has been around larger runners, ARM-native hosted runners, reusable workflows, and tighter OIDC federation with AWS, GCP, and Azure — eliminating most of the long-lived cloud secrets that used to live in repo settings.
High fit for any team where the source of truth already lives on GitHub. The integration with Pull Requests, Checks, Environments, and Deployments is tight in a way that no third-party CI replicates, and the per-minute pricing on hosted runners is competitive for small to medium workloads.
Watch out for: pipelines written entirely in Bash and YAML get unreadable fast, and the lack of a real local-runner story (act exists but is partial) means debugging a failing workflow often requires push-and-pray cycles. Hosted runner minutes get expensive on long-running jobs and large machines, so any team running serious CI volume eventually migrates to self-hosted runners on EKS or via Actions Runner Controller.
