Templates and reusable workflow repositories

GitHub’s reusable workflows and templates allow you to create and share standardized configurations and workflows across multiple repositories within an organization. They promote best practices, consistency, and efficiency in your projects by providing pre-defined templates for common tasks and scenarios. Let’s look at each feature in more detail in the following sections.

Reusable workflows

Reusable workflows are a GitHub Actions feature that enables you to create a workflow in one repository and use it as a reference in other repositories. This eliminates the need to duplicate workflow configurations across multiple repositories, making maintaining and updating workflows easier.

To create a reusable workflow, you define a workflow with the necessary steps and configuration in one repository, and then use the uses keyword in other repositories to reference that workflow. When a workflow run is triggered in the referencing...