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GitHub Actions Overview

In this section I wanted to move on and take a look at maybe a different approach to what we just spent time on. GitHub Actions is where we will focus on in this session.

GitHub Actions is a CI/CD platform that allows us to build, test and deploy amongst other tasks our pipeline. It has the concept of workdlows that build and test against a GitHub repository. You could also use GitHub Actions to drive other workflows based on events that happen within your repository.

Overall, in GitHub Actions our task is called a workflow. A workflow is the

Events - On Jobs - Runners - on Container Steps Actions

Workflow YAML file

Create Repo Create file .github/workflows/namewhatever you want

Actions tab or coloured dot

template options

Ideas and it might be an overview and then additional day on demo ideas.

https://github.blog/2022-02-02-build-ci-cd-pipeline-github-actions-four-steps/

GitHub Actions - Send tweet when a git push is performed - https://www.daveabrock.com/2020/04/19/posting-to-twitter-from-gh-actions/

GitHub Actions - Publish posts to dev.to - https://github.com/marketplace/actions/publish-to-dev-to

Resources

See you on Day 76