The Complete GitHub Actions & Workflows Guide

🎉 The Complete GitHub Actions & Workflows Guide 🌐

Automate Code Testing, Deployment & Versioning using CI/CD Workflows

🚀 Course Headline: Create & Publish GitHub Actions to the Marketplace

NOTE: The final section of this course involves setting up with AWS. You will need an AWS account to complete these tasks, and you may incur charges. Please review the promo video for more details on how to manage costs.

Unlock Your CI/CD Potential with GitHub Actions! 🛠️🚀

GitHub Actions has taken the software development world by storm, offering a powerful CI/CD service that's natively integrated with your GitHub repository and boasts a vast ecosystem and community. Unlike other services, GitHub Actions can leverage the platform's popularity to its fullest potential. With an array of official and community pre-made workflows and actions, you can automate almost any task imaginable – from deploying code to interacting with APIs, sending SMS messages, and much more!

Master GitHub Workflows & Actions! 🧵✨

In this comprehensive course, we will dive deep into the world of GitHub Actions. You'll learn everything you need to know about writing custom workflows and actions, publishing them to the marketplace for others to use, and implementing a full-fledged CI/CD pipeline from scratch.

Detailed Course Breakdown:

📚 Section 1: Introduction to GitHub Actions

• Understanding the basics: workflows, actions, jobs, steps, and more.
• Getting familiar with YAML: The language of GitHub workflows.
• Writing your first workflow: Executing commands, using shells, and employing actions (like checkout).

🔄 Section 2: Triggering Workflows

• Exploring GitHub events that trigger workflows (push, pull_request, etc.).
• Utilizing external events, manual triggers, and CRON schedules.
• Conditional running: Branch-specific, tag-specific, and directory path-specific workflows.

🎬 Section 3: Workflow Scripting & Context

• Mastering workflow scripting with expressions and functions.
• Working with default and custom environment variables.
• Securing sensitive information using encryption and handling sensitive files.
• Understanding the GITHUB_TOKEN and its permissions.

🔀 Section 4: Advanced Workflows

• Setting up workflow matrices to run jobs with different configurations.
• Managing workflow concurrency and reusability.
• Implementing caching, uploading artifacts, and understanding their importance.

🐓 Section 5: Integrating Docker in Workflows

• Utilizing Docker images in your workflows.
• Running multi-service container applications and inter-container communication.
• Automating the publishing of Docker images to DockerHub and GitHub Container Registry.

🛠️ Section 6: Crafting Your Own Actions

• Building actions with JavaScript or Docker.
• Writing a JavaScript action to open GitHub issues and a PHP action to send Slack messages.
• Exploring the concept of Composite Actions.

🚀 Section 7: Real-World CI/CD Example with AWS

• Implementing a CI/CD pipeline using Amazon Elastic Beanstalk.
• Managing feature flags and isolated deployments for pull requests.
• Versioning your app, generating changelogs, and using OpenID Connect for secure AWS access within your workflows. (AWS account required for this section.)

Why Take This Course?

• Hands-On Learning: You'll gain practical experience by working through real-world scenarios and examples.
• Expert Guidance: Learn from industry experts who have extensive knowledge of GitHub Actions and CI/CD best practices.
• Community Support: Join a community of learners who are as passionate about automation as you are.
• Marketable Skills: By completing this course, you'll be equipped with in-demand skills that will enhance your career in software development and DevOps.

Enroll now to start your journey towards mastering GitHub Actions and building robust CI/CD pipelines! 🌟

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of Git, familiarity with the command line interface, and a GitHub account. An AWS account is required for the final section.