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GitHub workflows and delivery

GitHub is where most of our work lives — code, review, CI and releases in one place. The review workflow matters more than the hosting: it is where quality is actually enforced.

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Where we use GitHub

GitHub is part of the stack on these 2 services. Each page covers how we work, what you get and what it costs to start.

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GitHub in practice

GitHub is where most of our work lives, and the part that matters is not the hosting — it is the review workflow. Pull requests make review the default path to the main branch rather than an optional courtesy, and branch protection turns team agreements about quality into rules the platform enforces.

Actions removed the separate CI vendor for most projects. Build, test and deploy workflows live beside the code, triggered by the events that should trigger them, and versioned along with the code they build. For a client project, that combination means the whole delivery process is inspectable in one place — which is exactly what you want when a project changes hands.

Protected branches, required reviews and a merge policy the team can follow without arguing about it weekly.

Build, test and deploy workflows alongside the code, triggered by the events that should trigger them.

Tagged releases, changelogs and the documentation that makes a repository transferable to another team.

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A good fit when

Almost any project — it is the default for a reason
Open-source work and public repositories
Teams that want CI, review and releases in one place
Client projects where the client should own the repository

Probably not when

Organisations requiring code to stay on their own infrastructure
Environments where GitHub is blocked or unavailable
Teams deeply invested in the Atlassian toolchain

What we run alongside GitHub

The rest of the setup, and why each piece is there. We keep this list short on purpose — every dependency is something someone has to maintain.

Branch protection: Required reviews and status checks, so quality rules are enforced rather than remembered.
GitHub Actions: CI and deployment beside the code, with runners for every platform.
Dependabot: Dependency and security updates raised as pull requests automatically.
CODEOWNERS: Review routed to the people who know the area.
Environments and secrets: Production credentials scoped to protected environments with approval gates.

Why GitHub

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Code review is the core workflow

Pull requests make review the default path to main rather than an optional courtesy.

CI is built in

Actions removes the separate CI vendor for most projects, with runners available for every platform.

Everyone already knows it

Onboarding a developer or handing a project to a client team needs no tooling explanation.

What we get called in to fix

Get a second opinion

No branch protection

Direct pushes to main, so review is optional and CI can be bypassed.

Secrets committed to history

Credentials in old commits, still valid and still retrievable.

Actions with excessive permissions

Workflows granted write access they do not need, which is a supply-chain risk.

Enormous repositories

Binaries and media committed over years, making every clone slow.

GitHub or the alternative

The comparisons we are actually asked to make, answered the way we would answer them on a call.

GitLab for self-hosting and one integrated platform. GitHub for ecosystem, familiarity and Actions.

Actions for most projects. Dedicated CI when pipelines get heavy or need capabilities Actions lacks.

Monorepo when code is shared and released together. Separate repositories when teams and lifecycles are genuinely independent.

GitHub works well with:

CircleCI

GitLab

Jenkins

Ansible

Appium

ArgoCD

AWS

Azure

Cypress

Datadog

Docker

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Frequently asked questions

Yours whenever possible. The client owning the repository from day one is the cleanest arrangement for everybody.

Yes, as the default CI for GitHub-hosted projects unless there is a reason to use something else.

Encrypted repository or environment secrets, never in the codebase, with production credentials scoped to protected environments.

Yours, whenever possible. You own the code and the history from day one, which is the cleanest arrangement for both sides.

Encrypted repository or environment secrets, never in the codebase, with production scoped to protected environments requiring approval.