[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":1307},["ShallowReactive",2],{"/blog/custom-actions-rasa-gitlab-devops":3,"navigation-en-us":523,"banner-en-us":951,"footer-en-us":961,"blog-post-authors-en-us-William Arias":1203,"blog-related-posts-en-us-custom-actions-rasa-gitlab-devops":1218,"blog-promotions-en-us":1243,"next-steps-en-us":1297},{"id":4,"title":5,"authors":6,"body":8,"category":500,"date":501,"description":502,"extension":503,"externalUrl":504,"faq":504,"featured":505,"heroImage":506,"meta":507,"navigation":508,"path":509,"seo":510,"slug":515,"stem":516,"tags":517,"template":521,"updatedDate":504,"__hash__":522},"blogPosts/en-us/blog/custom-actions-rasa-gitlab-devops.md","Create and Deploy Custom Actions Containers to Rasa X using Gitlab DevOps Platform",[7],"William Arias",{"type":9,"value":10,"toc":492},"minimark",[11,25,29,37,49,53,61,64,68,71,74,91,93,100,103,107,110,167,170,182,186,189,215,218,226,232,311,314,319,327,340,343,349,357,445,456,460,463,471,474,488],[12,13,14,24],"p",{},[15,16,17,18],"strong",{},"This blog post was a collaboration between William Arias, from Gitlab, and Vincent D. 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