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title: "What are GitHub Actions? How do they help in CI/CD?"  
description: "What are GitHub Actions? How do they help in CI/CD?"  
author: "Anubhav Sharma"  
published: 2025-07-02  
updated: 2026-01-29  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/161777/what-are-github-actions-how-do-they-help-in-ci-cd  
category: "GitHub"  
tags: ["github", "git"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What are GitHub Actions? How do they help in CI/CD?

**What are [GitHub](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/34563/bitbucket-vs-github-vs-gitlab) [Actions](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/156060/what-are-the-actions-performed-by-sql-server)? How do they help in CI/CD?**

## Replies

### Reply by ICSM Computer

**GitHub Actions** are GitHub’s built-in automation tool.

They let you automatically **build, test, and deploy your code** when something happens in your repo (like a push or pull request).

### How they help in CI/CD

- **CI (Continuous Integration):**\ Automatically runs tests and builds when code is pushed, so bugs are caught early.
- **CD (Continuous Deployment):**\ Automatically deploys the app after tests pass.

> ### In one line
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> **Push code → tests run → build → deploy — all automatically.**


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