diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
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+# DSpace Continuous Integration/Build via GitHub Actions
+# Concepts borrowed from
+# https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/actions/guides/building-and-testing-nodejs
+name: Build
+
+# Run this Build only for pushes / PRs to main branch
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: main
+  pull_request:
+    branches: main
+
+jobs:
+  tests:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      # The ci step will test the dspace-angular code against DSpace REST.
+      # Direct that step to utilize a DSpace REST service that has been started in docker.
+      DSPACE_REST_HOST: localhost
+      DSPACE_REST_PORT: 8080
+      DSPACE_REST_NAMESPACE: '/server'
+      DSPACE_REST_SSL: false
+    strategy:
+      # Create a matrix of Node versions to test against (in parallel)
+      matrix:
+        node-version: [10.x, 12.x]
+      # Do NOT exit immediately if one matrix job fails
+      fail-fast: false
+    # These are the actual CI steps to perform per job
+    steps:
+      # https://github.com/actions/checkout
+      - name: Checkout codebase
+        uses: actions/checkout@v1
+
+      # https://github.com/actions/setup-node
+      - name: Install Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v1
+        with:
+          node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
+
+      - name: Install latest Chrome (for e2e tests)
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install google-chrome-stable -y
+          google-chrome --version
+
+      # https://github.com/actions/cache/blob/main/examples.md#node---yarn
+      - name: Get Yarn cache directory
+        id: yarn-cache-dir-path
+        run: echo "::set-output name=dir::$(yarn cache dir)"
+      - name: Cache Yarn dependencies
+        uses: actions/cache@v2
+        with:
+          # Cache entire Yarn cache directory (see previous step)
+          path: ${{ steps.yarn-cache-dir-path.outputs.dir }}
+          # Cache key is hash of yarn.lock. Therefore changes to yarn.lock will invalidate cache
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-yarn-${{ hashFiles('**/yarn.lock') }}
+          restore-keys: ${{ runner.os }}-yarn-
+
+      - name: Install Yarn dependencies
+        run: yarn install --frozen-lockfile
+
+      - name: Run lint
+        run: yarn run lint
+
+      - name: Run build
+        run: yarn run build:prod
+
+      - name: Run specs (unit tests)
+        run: yarn run test:headless
+
+      # Using docker-compose start backend using CI configuration
+      # and load assetstore from a cached copy
+      - name: Start DSpace REST Backend via Docker (for e2e tests)
+        run: |
+          docker-compose -f ./docker/docker-compose-ci.yml up -d
+          docker-compose -f ./docker/cli.yml -f ./docker/cli.assetstore.yml run --rm dspace-cli
+          docker container ls
+
+      - name: Run e2e tests (integration tests)
+        run: yarn run e2e:ci
+
+      - name: Shutdown Docker containers
+        run: docker-compose -f ./docker/docker-compose-ci.yml down
+
+      # NOTE: Angular CLI only supports code coverage for specs. See https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/6286
+      # Upload coverage reports to Codecov (for Node v12 only)
+      # https://github.com/codecov/codecov-action
+      - name: Upload coverage to Codecov.io
+        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v1
+        if: matrix.node-version == '12.x'
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
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-os: linux
-dist: bionic
-language: node_js
-
-# Enable caching for yarn & node_modules
-cache:
-  yarn: true
-
-node_js:
-  - "10"
-  - "12"
-
-# Install latest chrome (for e2e headless testing). Run an update if needed.
-addons:
-  apt:
-    sources:
-      - google-chrome
-    packages:
-      - google-chrome-stable
-    update: true
-
-env:
-  # The ci step will test the dspace-angular code against DSpace REST.
-  # Direct that step to utilize a DSpace REST service that has been started in docker.
-  DSPACE_REST_HOST: localhost
-  DSPACE_REST_PORT: 8080
-  DSPACE_REST_NAMESPACE: '/server'
-  DSPACE_REST_SSL: false
-
-before_install:
-  # Check our versions of everything
-  - echo "Check versions"
-  - yarn -v
-  - docker-compose -v
-  - google-chrome-stable --version
-
-install:
-  # Start up a test DSpace 7 REST backend using the entities database dump
-  - docker-compose -f ./docker/docker-compose-travis.yml up -d
-  # Use the dspace-cli image to populate the assetstore. Triggers a discovery and oai update
-  - docker-compose -f ./docker/cli.yml -f ./docker/cli.assetstore.yml run --rm dspace-cli
-  # Install all local dependencies (retry if initially fails)
-  - travis_retry yarn install
-
-before_script:
-  - echo "Check Docker containers"
-  - docker container ls
-  # The following line could be enabled to verify that the rest server is responding.
-  #- echo "Check REST API available (via Docker)"
-  #- curl http://localhost:8080/server/
-
-script:
-  # build app and run all tests
-  - ng lint || travis_terminate 1;
-  - travis_wait yarn run build:prod || travis_terminate 1;
-  - yarn test:headless || travis_terminate 1;
-  - yarn run e2e:ci || travis_terminate 1;
-
-after_script:
-  # Shutdown docker after everything runs
-  - docker-compose -f ./docker/docker-compose-travis.yml down
-
-# After a successful build and test (see 'script'), send code coverage reports to codecov.io
-# NOTE: As there's no need to send coverage multiple times, we only run this for one version of node.
-after_success:
-  - if [ "$TRAVIS_NODE_VERSION" = "12" ]; then bash <(curl -s https://codecov.io/bash); fi
diff --git a/docker/docker-compose-travis.yml b/docker/docker-compose-ci.yml
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rename from docker/docker-compose-travis.yml
rename to docker/docker-compose-ci.yml
index f0f5ef70e8..f440454bb6 100644
--- a/docker/docker-compose-travis.yml
+++ b/docker/docker-compose-ci.yml
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# Docker Compose for running the DSpace backend for e2e testing in CI
 networks:
   dspacenet:
 services: