Learn how GitHub Actions enables you to automate your software development cycle. You’ll learn how to plan automation of your software development life cycle with GitHub Actions workflows, use GitHub Actions to automatically build an application, and use GitHub Script to interact with the GitHub API.
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Automate your workflow with GitHub Actions Part 1 of 2
- Automate development tasks by using GitHub Actions
- Introduction
- How does GitHub Actions automate development tasks?
- Identify the components of GitHub Actions
- Configure a GitHub Actions workflow
- Exercise – Create and run a basic GitHub Actions workflow
- Build continuous integration workflows by using GitHub Actions
- Introduction
- How do I use GitHub Actions to create workflows for CI?
- Manage and debug workflows in GitHub Actions
- Customize your workflow with environment variables
- Cache, share and debug workflows
- Exercise – Create the CI workflow on GitHub
- Build and deploy applications to Azure by using GitHub Actions
- Introduction
- How do I use GitHub Actions to deploy to Azure?
- Remove artifacts, create status badges, and configure environment protections
- Exercise – Create a workflow that deploys a web app to Azure
- Automate GitHub by using GitHub Script
- Introduction
- What is GitHub Script?
- Exercise – Using GitHub Script in GitHub Actions
Lesson 2: Automate your workflow with GitHub Actions Part 2 of 2
- Leverage GitHub Actions to publish to GitHub Packages
- Introduction
- What is GitHub Packages?
- Publish to GitHub Packages and GitHub Container Registry
- Knowledge check
- Exercise – Publish to a GitHub Packages registry
- GitHub Packages for code packages
- Create and publish custom GitHub actions
- Introduction
- Create a custom GitHub action
- Publish a custom GitHub action
- Exercise – Create a custom JavaScript GitHub action
- Manage GitHub Actions in the enterprise
- Introduction
- Understanding GitHub enterprise models
- Manage actions and workflows
- Control access and usage of actions in your enterprise
- Managing and leveraging reusable components in GitHub Actions
- Manage runners
- Configure self-hosted runners for enterprise use
- Manage encrypted secrets
- Exercise – Use a repository secret in a GitHub Actions workflow