Cert Prep: GitHub Actions by Microsoft Press

5h 19mIntermediate2024-03-29

Authors

Microsoft Press

Microsoft

Tim Warner

Technical Trainer and Content Developer

Course details

GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows with world-class CI/CD. Build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub. This course with instructor Tim Warner imparts the necessary skills and knowledge to understand how your customers can use GitHub Actions to automate their software development workflows. Whether you are a seasoned GitHub Actions user or someone who wants to deeply learn the most important aspects of GitHub Actions, this course is for you. Learn how to author and maintain workflows, consume workflows, author and maintain actions, and manage GitHub actions for the enterprise.

Skills covered

Version ControlGitHubSoftware Development ToolsCert PrepSoftware Development

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Introduction

1. Trigger Custom Workflows

02 - Learning objectives
03 - Configure workflows to run for one or more events
04 - Configure workflows to run for scheduled events
05 - Configure workflows to run for manual events
06 - Configure workflows to run for webhook events
07 - Demonstrate a GitHub event to trigger a workflow based on a practical use case

2. Utilize Workflow Components

08 - Learning objectives
09 - Identify the correct syntax for workflow jobs
10 - Use job steps for actions and shell commands
11 - Use conditional keywords for steps
12 - Describe how actions, workflows, jobs, steps, runs, and the marketplace work together
13 - Identify scenarios suited for using GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners
14 - Implement workflow commands as a run step to communicate with the runner
15 - Demonstrate the use of dependent jobs

3. Secure Workflow Data

16 - Learning objectives
17 - Use encrypted secrets to store sensitive information
18 - Identify the available default environment variables during the construction of the workflow
19 - Identify the location to set custom environment variables in a workflow
20 - Identify when to use the github token secret
21 - Demonstrate how to use workflow commands to set environment variables

4. Craft Purposeful Workflows

22 - Learning objectives
23 - Add a script to a workflow
24 - Demonstrate how to publish to GitHub Packages using a workflow
25 - Demonstrate how to publish to GitHub container registry using a workflow
26 - Use database and service containers in a GitHub actions workflow
27 - Use labels to route workflows to specific runners
28 - Use codeql as a step in a workflow
29 - Demonstrate how to publish a component as a GitHub release using GitHub actions
30 - Deploy a release to a cloud provider using a GitHub actions workflow

5. Optimize Workflow Runs

31 - Learning objectives
32 - Configure caching of workflow dependencies
33 - Identify steps to pass data between jobs in a workflow
34 - Remove workflow artifacts from GitHub
35 - Add a workflow status badge
36 - Add environment protections
37 - Define a matrix of different job configurations
38 - Implement workflow approval gates

6. Analyze Workflow Effects

39 - Learning objectives
40 - Identify the event that triggered a workflow from its effects in a repository, issue, or pull request
41 - Describe a workflow's effects from reading its configuration file
42 - Diagnose a failed workflow run
43 - Identify ways to access the workflow logs from the user interface
44 - Identify ways to access the workflow logs from the REST API in GitHub
45 - Enable step debug logging in a workflow
46 - Demonstrate how to use default environment variables in a workflow
47 - Demonstrate the correct syntax for passing custom environment variables in a workflow step

7. Navigate Workflow Assets

48 - Learning objectives
49 - Describe where to locate a workflow in a repository
50 - Explain the difference between disabling and deleting a workflows
51 - Demonstrate how to download workflow artifacts from the user interface
52 - Describe how to use an organization's templated workflow

8. Employ Trustworthy Actions

53 - Learning objectives
54 - Define the indicators of what makes a trustworthy action
55 - Identify an action's type, inputs, and outputs
56 - Demonstrate how to use the specific version of an action in a workflow

9. Select Action Types

57 - Learning objectives
58 - Identify the type of action required for a given problem
59 - Demonstrate how to troubleshoot javascript and docker container actions

10. Detail Action Components

60 - Learning objectives
61 - Identify the files and directory structure needed to create an action
62 - Identify the metadata and syntax needed to create an action
63 - Implement workflow commands within an action to communicate with the runner, including exit codes

11. Distribute Custom Actions

64 - Learning objectives
65 - Identify how to select an appropriate distribution model for an action
66 - Identify the best practices for distributing custom actions
67 - Demonstrate how to create a release strategy for an action
68 - Demonstrate how to publish an action to the GitHub marketplace

12. Propagate Enterprise Actions

69 - Learning objectives
70 - Explain reuse templates for actions and workflows
71 - Define an approach for managing and leveraging reusable components
72 - Define how to distribute actions for an enterprise
73 - Define how to control access to actions within the enterprise
74 - Configure organizational use policies for GitHub actions

13. Administer Enterprise Runners

75 - Learning objectives
76 - Describe the effects of configuring IP allow lists on GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners
77 - Describe how to select appropriate runners to support workloads
78 - Explain the difference between GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners
79 - Configure self-hosted runners for enterprise use
80 - Demonstrate how to manage self-hosted runners using groups
81 - Demonstrate how to monitor, troubleshoot, and update self-hosted runners

14. Guard Enterprise Secrets

82 - Learning objectives
83 - Identify the scope of encrypted secrets
84 - Demonstrate how to access encrypted secrets within actions and workflows
85 - Explain how to manage organization-level encrypted secrets
86 - Explain how to manage repository-level encrypted secrets

Summary

87 - Summary