Forgejo Actions

GitHub Actions-compatible CI/CD automation

Overview

Forgejo Actions is a built-in CI/CD automation system that enables developers to define and execute workflows directly within their Forgejo repositories. As a continuous integration and continuous deployment platform, Forgejo Actions automates software development tasks such as building, testing, packaging, and deploying applications whenever specific events occur in your repository.

Forgejo Actions provides GitHub Actions similarity, allowing teams to easily adapt existing GitHub Actions workflows and marketplace actions with minimal or no modifications. This compatibility significantly reduces migration effort for teams transitioning from GitHub to Forgejo, while maintaining familiar syntax and workflow patterns.

Workflows are defined using YAML files stored in the .forgejo/workflows/ directory of your repository. Each workflow consists of one or more jobs that execute on action runners when triggered by repository events such as pushes, pull requests, tags, or manual dispatch. This enables automation of repetitive development tasks, ensuring consistent build and deployment processes across your software delivery pipeline.

By integrating CI/CD directly into the repository management platform, Forgejo Actions eliminates the need for external CI/CD systems, reducing infrastructure complexity and providing a unified development experience.

Key Features

Automated Workflow Execution - Execute automated workflows triggered by repository events such as code pushes, pull requests, tag creation, or manual dispatch, enabling continuous integration and deployment without manual intervention
GitHub Actions Similarity - Maintains similarity with GitHub Actions syntax and workflows, allowing reuse of existing actions from the GitHub marketplace and simplifying migration from GitHub-based CI/CD pipelines

Purpose in EDP

Forgejo Actions enables EDP customers to execute complete CI/CD pipelines directly on the platform for building, testing, packaging, and deploying software. This integrated automation capability is fundamental to the EDP value proposition.

Without native CI/CD automation, customers would face significant integration overhead connecting external CI/CD systems to their EDP workflows. This fragmentation would complicate pipeline management, increase operational complexity, and reduce the platform’s effectiveness as a unified development solution.

Since Forgejo Actions is natively integrated into Forgejo, EDP provides this critical CI/CD capability with minimal additional infrastructure. Customers benefit from seamless automation without requiring separate tool provisioning, authentication configuration, or cross-system integration maintenance.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Installed Forgejo
Installed Forgejo runner (see Runner Installation Quick Start)

Quick Start

Create a repository
Create file /.forgejo/workflows/example.yaml

# example.yaml
name: example

on:
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Hello World
        run: |
          echo "Hello World!"

Navigate to Actions > example.yaml > Run workflow

Verification

See the logs, there should appear a “Hello World!” in “Hello World” Step

Usage Examples

Use actions to deploy infrastructure

See infra-deploy repository as a example

Use goreleaser to build, test, package and release a project

This pipeline is triggered when a tag with the prefix v is pushed to the repository. Then, it fetches the current repository with all tags and checks out the version for the current run.

After that the application is being built.

# .github/workflows/release.yaml
name: ci

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - v*

jobs:
  goreleaser:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
      - name: Set up Go
        uses: actions/setup-go@v6
        with:
          go-version: ">=1.25.1"
      - name: Test code
        run: make test
      - name: Import GPG key
        id: import_gpg
        uses: https://github.com/crazy-max/ghaction-import-gpg@v6
        with:
          gpg_private_key: ${{ secrets.GPG_PRIVATE_KEY }}
          passphrase: ${{ secrets.GPG_PASSPHRASE }}
      - name: Run GoReleaser
        uses: https://github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser-action@v6
        env:
          GITEA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PACKAGES_TOKEN }}
          GPG_FINGERPRINT: ${{ steps.import_gpg.outputs.fingerprint }}
        with:
          args: release --clean

Troubleshooting

The job is not being executed by a runner

Problem: The job is not being picked up by a runner

Solution: Probably, there is currently no runner available with the label defined in your job runs-on attribute. Check the available runner for your repository by navigating to the repository settings > Actions > Runners. Now you can see all available runners and their Labels. Choose on of them as your runs-on attribute.