Automate your workflow with GitHub Actions

In this module, you will:

• Describe GitHub Actions, the types of actions, and where to find them.
• Plan an automation of your software development lifecycle with GitHub Actions workflows.
• Create a container action and have it run in a workflow triggered by a push event to your GitHub repository.

In this module, you will:

• Learn essential features and techniques to build robust and dynamic workflows
• Build and test a Node.js project by using GitHub Actions and a templated workflow
• Debug a failed test using the GitHub Actions Log
• Customize your workflow with GitHub Actions

In this module, you will:

• Discover options for triggering a continuous delivery GitHub Workflow
• Understand steps to remove workflow artifacts
• Identify important environment protections
• Control workflow execution with job conditionals
• Deploying to Microsoft Azure with a GitHub deploy action
• Store credentials with GitHub Secrets
• Create and destroy Azure resources with GitHub Actions workflows

In this module, you will:

• Use GitHub Script in your workflow.
• Comment on issues using octokit.
• Add issues to a project board using octokit.
• Use the workflow expression syntax to filter when jobs run in a workflow.

By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

• Understand what a Package Repository is and when to use it.
• Set up a Continuous Integration (CI) workflow with GitHub Actions to publish to GitHub Packages.
• Validate your knowledge with an exercise that checks your ability to publish to a GitHub Packages registry.
• Identify how to authenticate, install, and manage GitHub Packages.

In this module, you'll learn how to:

• Identify the metadata and syntax needed to create custom GitHub actions.
• Learn best practices to publish a private or public GitHub action.
• Consume actions within a workflow file.
• Create custom JavaScript based actions.
• Publish a newly created action to the GitHub Marketplace.

In this module, you'll learn how to:

• Identify the different tools you can use at enterprise and organization levels to manage your actions and workflows.
• Evaluate what the appropriate runners are for your enterprise instance.
• Discover the different configurations available for self-hosted runners and customize them according to your enterprise use case.
• Understand what encrypted secrets are and how to use them in your actions and workflows.

• Introduction
• How does GitHub Actions automate development tasks?
• Identify the components of GitHub Actions
• Configure a GitHub Actions workflow
• Exercise - Create and run a basic GitHub Actions workflow
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• How do I use GitHub Actions to create workflows for CI?
• Customize your workflow with environment variables and artifact data
• Exercise - Create the CI workflow on GitHub
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• How do I use GitHub Actions to deploy to Azure?
• Remove artifacts, create status badges, and configure environment protections
• Exercise - Create a workflow that deploys a web app to Azure
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• What is GitHub Script?
• Exercise - Using GitHub Script in GitHub Actions
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• What is GitHub Packages?
• Publish to GitHub Packages and GitHub Container Registry
• Knowledge check
• Exercise - Publish to a GitHub Packages registry
• GitHub Packages for code packages
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• Create a custom GitHub action
• Publish a custom GitHub action
• Exercise - Create a custom JavaScript GitHub action
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• Manage actions and workflows
• Manage runners
• Manage encrypted secrets
• Exercise - Use a repository secret in a GitHub Actions workflow
• Knowledge check
• Summary