Best Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Tools for GitHub Actions

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When engineering standards live in wikis, tickets, and CI templates, they are difficult to apply consistently across a growing software organization. Earthly Lunar gives platform engineering teams a central way to enforce those standards across different repositories, pipelines, and developer workflows. It gathers evidence from source code and CI/CD execution, normalizes it into a service-level view, and runs deterministic guardrails against that data. A guardrail might require test coverage, an approved dependency, an SBOM, or a deployment check. Teams can introduce policies in a visibility-only mode, surface findings on pull requests, and move to blocking checks when ready. Developers get actionable feedback on proposed changes while platform leaders see adoption across the organization. Lunar includes a library of 200+ guardrails and supports custom policies for company-specific requirements, including lessons from incidents. Continuous results provide a record of what was checked and when, reducing the work of gathering compliance evidence.