GitHub Launches Actions to Run Code in Containers and Security Alerts for Java and .NET Projects

The GitHub code repository, used by 31 million developers worldwide over the past year, today announced a series of dramatic changes, including Actions, a new way for developers to automate workflows and create, share, and execute code in containers. on GitHub.

In a phone interview with VentureBeat, Sam Lambert, platform manager at GitHub, said that Stocks was the "most important thing we've done since the demand for extraction" and the fact that it's the most important thing. compared to Shortcuts for automating workflow introduced for iOS 12 last month.

"That means you can now use that to express your workflow and connect many small items together called GitHub Actions in your repository. An action will do almost anything that will take place in a container, "said Lambert.

Actions will be available as a limited public beta for Developer, Team, and Business Cloud plans on GitHub. They are designed to enable any team to adopt the best workflow, said Cory Wilkerson, senior director of product engineering at GitHub.

"Many of the major clouds have created products for system administrators and not really developers. We want to give developers power and flexibility and give them the ability to choose the tools they want, configure them seamlessly, and then stay on the market. the shoulders of the giants of the community around them on the GitHub platform, "he said.

The unified contribution release was also announced today, a feature that allows developers to get credit for the work they have done on repositories for companies. Contributions is designed to help developers whose story is stuck behind the firewalls of private companies.

"I've been writing code for 20 years and it's a bit lost. GitHub Contributions does not allow me to defrag my developer identity and start transmitting this identity from behind the firewall to the presence of it for the rest of the world, "said Wilkerson.

Unified contributions are anonymous and rely on summary project data without transfer of intellectual property.

A number of security measures have also been made available today, including the Security Advisory API for access to all vulnerabilities detected by GitHub for integration into your existing tools and services.

Security vulnerability alerts for Java and .NET codes were also introduced today for automated notifications and understanding of troubleshooting your code. Proactive security alerts were introduced last year for Ruby, JavaScript and Python.

Another novelty: token analysis for public repositories. This feature allows GitHub to alert a developer, or even its cloud provider, if secret keys or passwords are, for example, accidentally pushed into a public channel.

The series of updates to the GitHub platform was announced at the GitHub Universe conference, which is being held today and Wednesday at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco.

The Octoverse Report, a kind of State Union for Developers, was also released today and revealed that GitHub had had 31 million users last year. , compared with 24 million the year before.

Adoption by organizations and businesses also increased by 44%. Today, GitHub has also launched Connect to help businesses better leverage its broad open source community.