The best way to optimize your CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions' parallelized multi-platform capabilities and caching mechanisms can reduce the execution time of your builds. Here's how!

View in browser One of the key bottlenecks in the execution of a CI/CD job is dependency installation. You could take advantage of Github's caching of ActiveState runtime environments to speed up your builds. Follow along. Traditionally, package managers are used to resolve and install dependencies before executing a CI/CD pipeline. However, this process requires a lengthy download and resolution process every time there's a new code change. Containers can help, but you still need to rebuild them every time your dependencies change.    Combining ActiveState's pre-built runtimes and the recently introduced caching feature in Github Actions can save time when executing repeated runs of a job. The key is our CLI, the State Tool, which pulls in your runtime and updates the Github cache, removing the dependency installation/resolution bottleneck.   Read this post to get a step by step explanation guiding you from setting up your build environment to executing the lint and test scripts and finally downloading a successful build. If CI/CD is a significant part of your work you can always go on to read more posts from our CI/CD series. Read: Optimizing CI/CD in GitHub Actions You are receiving this email because you signed up for the latest insights from ActiveState. Code for thought by ActiveState is a monthly email that shares a topic handpicked for you by our Dev Content team. Received this email from a friend? Sign up here. ActiveState Software, 1000 - 1177 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6E 2K3 Unsubscribe Manage preferences