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DevOps & Automation · Foundational

Job

In CI/CD, a set of steps that execute on the same runner; in GitHub Actions jobs run in parallel unless linked with needs.

Definition

Each job gets a fresh runner environment, so data must be passed via artifacts or job outputs. Jobs can use a matrix, services containers, environments, and conditional if: expressions.

Example

deploy: needs: [test] runs only after the test job succeeds.

Exam tip

Steps in a job share a filesystem; separate jobs do not.

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