Discussion on: What's the difference between a GitHub action and a workflow?

Thank you a lot @mishmanners for the post! It was really helpful. However, I do think that GitHub Marketplace link needs to be adjuested as it is currently poinitng to github.blog serach results.

I also thought it would be helpful to post a sample workflow including all of the GitHub Actions components. So, here is a GitHub Actions Workflow example:

release.yml

# Workflow Name
name: Release Process

on:
  # Events
  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  # Jobs
  generate-release:
    name: Create GitHub Release
    # Runner OS
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Checkout Repository
      # Actions
      uses: actions/checkout@v2

For the above code snippet:

• Workflow ➡️ release.yml
  Workflow Name ➡️ Release Process

• Event ➡️ push

• Job ➡️ generate-release
  Job Name ➡️ Create GitHub Release

• Runner OS ➡️ ubuntu-latest

• Step Name ➡️ Checkout Repository

• Action ➡️ actions/checkout@v2

I hope this was helpful!