diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6246514558
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+name: Go
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ master ]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ master ]
+
+env:
+  E2E_SETUP_KIND: yes
+  E2E_SETUP_KUBECTL: yes
+  SUDO: sudo
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    name: Build
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - name: Set up Go 1.x
+      uses: actions/setup-go@v2
+      with:
+        go-version: ^1.14
+      id: go
+
+    - name: Check out code into the Go module directory
+      uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+    - name: Install CI
+      run: |
+        go get -v -t -d ./...
+        make install-tools
+
+    - name: Lint
+      run: |
+        curl -sfL https://install.goreleaser.com/github.com/golangci/golangci-lint.sh | sh -s -- -b $(go env GOPATH)/bin v1.30.0
+        make lint
+
+    - name: Validate generated manifests
+      run: |
+        make validate-manifests
+
+    - name: Validate vendor is in sync with go modules
+      run: |
+        make validate-modules
+
+    - name: Check that all metrics are documented
+      run: |
+        make doccheck
+
+    - name: Unit tests
+      run: |
+        make test-unit
+
+    - name: Benchmark tests
+      run: |
+        make test-benchmark-compare
+
+    - name: Build
+      run: |
+        make build
+
+    - name: End-to-end tests
+      run: |
+        REGISTRY="quay.io/coreos" make e2e
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 601d16339d..0000000000
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-sudo: required
-dist: xenial
-language: go
-
-go:
-    - "1.14.x"
-
-services:
-  - docker
-
-git:
-  # Benchmark tests needs to access other branches, thereby we need to fetch all
-  # of the repository.
-  depth: false
-
-env:
-  global:
-      - E2E_SETUP_KIND=yes
-      - E2E_SETUP_KUBECTL=yes
-      - SUDO=sudo
-
-before_script:
-- make install-tools
-
-before_install:
-- sudo apt-get -qq -y install conntrack
-
-install:
-- mkdir -p $HOME/gopath/src/k8s.io
-- mv $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR $HOME/gopath/src/k8s.io/kube-state-metrics
-- cd $HOME/gopath/src/k8s.io/kube-state-metrics
-
-jobs:
-  include:
-    - stage: all
-      name: Lint
-      script: make lint
-    - name: Validate generated manifests
-      script: make validate-manifests
-    - name: Validate vendor is in sync with go modules
-      script: make validate-modules
-    - name: Check that all metrics are documented
-      script: make doccheck
-    - name: Unit tests
-      script: make test-unit
-    - name: Benchmark tests
-      script: make test-benchmark-compare
-    - name: Build
-      script: make build
-    - name: End to end tests
-      script: REGISTRY="quay.io/coreos" make e2e
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 78f99db0c8..04921ba1ec 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -13,11 +13,6 @@ Commit = $(shell git rev-parse --short HEAD)
 ALL_ARCH = amd64 arm arm64 ppc64le s390x
 PKG = k8s.io/kube-state-metrics/pkg
 GO_VERSION = 1.14.6
-FIRST_GOPATH := $(firstword $(subst :, ,$(shell go env GOPATH)))
-BENCHCMP_BINARY := $(FIRST_GOPATH)/bin/benchcmp
-GOLANGCI_VERSION := v1.29.0
-HAS_GOLANGCI := $(shell command -v golangci-lint)
-
 IMAGE = $(REGISTRY)/kube-state-metrics
 MULTI_ARCH_IMG = $(IMAGE)-$(ARCH)
 
@@ -43,9 +38,6 @@ licensecheck:
        fi
 
 lint: shellcheck licensecheck
-ifndef HAS_GOLANGCI
-	curl -sfL https://install.goreleaser.com/github.com/golangci/golangci-lint.sh | sh -s -- -b $(GOPATH)/bin ${GOLANGCI_VERSION}
-endif
 	golangci-lint run
 
 doccheck: generate
@@ -77,7 +69,8 @@ shellcheck:
 
 # Runs benchmark tests on the current git ref and the last release and compares
 # the two.
-test-benchmark-compare: $(BENCHCMP_BINARY)
+test-benchmark-compare:
+	@git fetch
 	./tests/compare_benchmarks.sh master
 	./tests/compare_benchmarks.sh ${LATEST_RELEASE_BRANCH}
 
@@ -128,7 +121,7 @@ e2e:
 generate: build-local
 	@echo ">> generating docs"
 	@./scripts/generate-help-text.sh
-	@$(GOPATH)/bin/embedmd -w `find . -path ./vendor -prune -o -name "*.md" -print`
+	embedmd -w `find . -path ./vendor -prune -o -name "*.md" -print`
 
 validate-manifests: examples
 	@git diff --exit-code
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9e33397df6..a63c5b0269 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Overview
 
-[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics)  [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics) [![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics)
+[![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics) [![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics)
 
 kube-state-metrics is a simple service that listens to the Kubernetes API
 server and generates metrics about the state of the objects. (See examples in
diff --git a/tests/README.md b/tests/README.md
index 5cb95a1d61..410daf7a78 100644
--- a/tests/README.md
+++ b/tests/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ This folder contains simple e2e tests.
 When launched, it spins up a kubernetes cluster using [kind](https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/), creates several kubernetes resources and launches a kube-state-metrics deployment.
 Then, it runs verification tests: check metrics' presence, lint metrics, check service health, etc.
 
-The test suite is run automatically using Travis.
+The test suite is run automatically using Github Actions.
 
 ## Running locally