GitHub Actions is the native continuous integration and deployment solution that comes with each GitHub repository. GitHub actions provide another artifact that can be managed for an API contract, structured and governed to help move APIs forward across every stage of the API lifecycle.
Pipelines defined as GitHub actions are where you can automate API tests, governance rules, and integration with other services and tooling–triggered anytime there is a change made to an API contract. GitHub actions provide teams producing APIs with the agency they need to automate their own API lifecycle, but also allowing for centralized governance to inject policies and rules into the workflow.
While there may be some common pipeline tasks that exist across all APIs, what is automated will vary from team to team and domain to domain. GitHub Action pipelines should be defined as part of wider software development operations, but also augmented with policies and rules that bring automation in alignment with centralized or federated API governance practices across teams.