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

Learn everything required to effectively set up continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) and use pipelines with GitHub Actions.

Introduction

• GitHub Actions workshop: Introduction

1. Analyze the Software Development Lifecycle

• Learning objectives
• Understand DevOps
• Review the waterfall software development lifecycle
• Explore agile
• Review the DevOps lifecycle

2. Learn Git

• Learning objectives
• Review git commands
• Install and use GitHub Desktop
• Review authentication in GitHub, part 1
• Review authentication in GitHub, part 2
• Compare git branching strategies
• Examine the different merge methods in GitHub
• Practice merging branches

3. Explore GitHub

• Learning objectives
• Analyze GitHub's version control system features, part 1
• Analyze GitHub's version control system features, part 2
• Understand pull requests, part 1
• Understand pull requests, part 2
• Explore the GitHub CLI
• Install and use the GitHub CLI
• Understand semantic versioning

4. Understand Workflows in GitHub Actions

• Learning objectives
• Learn YAML
• Break down GitHub Actions workflows
• Analyze workflow triggers, jobs, and steps
• Create a simple workflow
• Compare GitHub Actions runners
• Set up a self-hosted runner

5. Review Advanced GitHub Actions Workflow Features

• Learning objectives
• Explore contexts
• Review variables and secrets
• Use variables and secrets in your workflow
• Understand expressions
• Review functions
• Add functions and expressions to your workflow

6. Control Job Execution in GitHub Actions

• Learning objectives
• Explore job concurrency, outputs, and dependencies
• Run jobs within containers
• Control job execution
• Explore matrix strategies
• Implement matrix strategies

7. Explore, Create, and Use an Action

• Learning objectives
• Understand actions in GitHub Actions
• Discover and use actions in GitHub Actions
• Learn about artifacts and cache
• Share data between jobs with artifacts
• Optimize your workflow with cache
• Explore the metadata file and composite actions, part 1
• Explore the metadata file and composite actions, part 2
• Learn custom JavaScript actions
• Create a JavaScript action
• Examine custom Docker container actions
• Create Docker container actions

8. Explore Continuous Integration

• Learning objectives
• Set up unit testing and code coverage, part 1
• Set up unit testing and code coverage, part 2
• Discover code scanning, part 1
• Discover code scanning, part 2
• Explore GitHub Dependabot and secret scanning, part 1
• Explore GitHub Dependabot and secret scanning, part 2
• Understand code owners
• Set up code owners
• Configure branch protection, part 1
• Configure branch protection, part 2

9. Release Your Application

• Learning objectives
• Review the release stage
• Create releases with the GitHub UI
• Create releases in the GitHub CLI
• Learn about packages and package registries
• Create and publish a package to GitHub packages
• Create a Dockerfile and build a container image, part 1
• Create a Dockerfile and build a container image, part 2
• Learn about containers and container registries, part 1
• Learn about containers and container registries, part 2

10. Explore Continuous Delivery and Deployment

• Learning objectives
• Understand the different deployment targets
• Break down different deployment environments
• Create an environment and deploy your application

Conclusion

• GitHub Actions workshop: Summary