A web-based Git platform for version control, code review, and collaborative software development, with built-in CI/CD via GitHub Actions.
GitHub is the dominant web-based platform for Git version control, hosting code repositories and layering collaboration tools — pull requests, code review, issue tracking — on top of raw Git. It's owned by Microsoft, and integrates CI/CD directly via GitHub Actions and cloud development environments via Codespaces, rather than requiring separate third-party tools bolted onto repository hosting. The Free plan is genuinely capable: unlimited public and private repositories, 2,000 CI/CD minutes per month, and 500MB of package storage, which covers a meaningful amount of real development work before hitting a real constraint. Paid tiers scale CI/CD minutes and storage substantially (3,000 minutes and 2GB on Team; 50,000 minutes and 50GB on Enterprise) and add organizational features — Codespaces access on Team, and SAML SSO, Enterprise Managed Users, and data residency options on Enterprise — that matter for larger, more regulated organizations rather than individual developers or small teams.
Yes — the Free plan includes unlimited public/private repositories, 2,000 CI/CD minutes/month, and 500MB of package storage.
Yes — via GitHub Actions, with a monthly minutes allowance that scales by plan.