GitHub Actions Workshop: Create CI/CD Pipelines to Automate, Build, Test and Deploy your Application

Course details

GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate software workflows with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). You can build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub. In this course, DevOps engineer Paul Furlan uses screencasting, slides, and hands-on labs to demonstrate how to create CI/CD pipelines to build, test, and deploy an application to the cloud. Find out how to establish automated and reliable processes for your software.

Learning objectives
Learn about the importance of CI/CD pipelines, their use case, and how to author your own with GitHub Actions workflows.
Integrate scripts and actions into your workflow to build your application.
Implement testing to improve the overall quality of your application.
Deploy your application to the cloud with GitHub Actions workflows.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - GitHub Actions workshop - Introduction

1. Analyze the Software Development Lifecycle

02 - Learning objectives
03 - Understand DevOps
04 - Review the waterfall software development lifecycle
05 - Explore agile
06 - Review the DevOps lifecycle

2. Learn Git

07 - Learning objectives
08 - Review git commands
09 - Install and use GitHub Desktop
10 - Review authentication in GitHub, part 1
11 - Review authentication in GitHub, part 2
12 - Compare git branching strategies
13 - Examine the different merge methods in GitHub
14 - Practice merging branches

3. Explore GitHub

15 - Learning objectives
16 - Analyze GitHub's version control system features, part 1
17 - Analyze GitHub's version control system features, part 2
18 - Understand pull requests, part 1
19 - Understand pull requests, part 2
20 - Explore the GitHub CLI
21 - Install and use the GitHub CLI
22 - Understand semantic versioning

4. Understand Workflows in GitHub Actions

23 - Learning objectives
24 - Learn YAML
25 - Break down GitHub Actions workflows
26 - Analyze workflow triggers, jobs, and steps
27 - Create a simple workflow
28 - Compare GitHub Actions runners
29 - Set up a self-hosted runner

5. Review Advanced GitHub Actions Workflow Features

30 - Learning objectives
31 - Explore contexts
32 - Review variables and secrets
33 - Use variables and secrets in your workflow
34 - Understand expressions
35 - Review functions
36 - Add functions and expressions to your workflow

6. Control Job Execution in GitHub Actions

37 - Learning objectives
38 - Explore job concurrency, outputs, and dependencies
39 - Run jobs within containers
40 - Control job execution
41 - Explore matrix strategies
42 - Implement matrix strategies

7. Explore, Create, and Use an Action

43 - Learning objectives
44 - Understand actions in GitHub Actions
45 - Discover and use actions in GitHub Actions
46 - Learn about artifacts and cache
47 - Share data between jobs with artifacts
48 - Optimize your workflow with cache
49 - Explore the metadata file and composite actions, part 1
50 - Explore the metadata file and composite actions, part 2
51 - Learn custom JavaScript actions
52 - Create a JavaScript action
53 - Examine custom Docker container actions
54 - Create Docker container actions

8. Explore Continuous Integration

55 - Learning objectives
56 - Set up unit testing and code coverage, part 1
57 - Set up unit testing and code coverage, part 2
58 - Discover code scanning, part 1
59 - Discover code scanning, part 2
60 - Explore GitHub Dependabot and secret scanning, part 1
61 - Explore GitHub Dependabot and secret scanning, part 2
62 - Understand code owners
63 - Set up code owners
64 - Configure branch protection, part 1
65 - Configure branch protection, part 2

9. Release Your Application

66 - Learning objectives
67 - Review the release stage
68 - Create releases with the GitHub UI
69 - Create releases in the GitHub CLI
70 - Learn about packages and package registries
71 - Create and publish a package to GitHub packages
72 - Create a Dockerfile and build a container image, part 1
73 - Create a Dockerfile and build a container image, part 2
74 - Learn about containers and container registries, part 1
75 - Learn about containers and container registries, part 2

10. Explore Continuous Delivery and Deployment

76 - Learning objectives
77 - Understand the different deployment targets
78 - Break down different deployment environments
79 - Create an environment and deploy your application

Conclusion

80 - GitHub Actions workshop - Summary