What you'll learn

Use GitHub Actions to build automated workflows & processes

Automate code-based and project-based tasks

Run simple and complex workflows on a broad variety of triggers

Build powerful CI / CD workflows, including runtime configuration, security and conditional execution

Build custom actions or leverage public community solutions

How to secure GitHub Action workflows

Requirements

Basic Git & GitHub knowledge is strongly recommended (but the course offers a refresher module)

Basic development knowledge is recommended but not strictly required

NO prior GitHub Actions knowledge is required

Description

GitHub Actions is an extremely popular and fast-growing CI / CD automation service offered by GitHub.

This course teaches GitHub Actions from the ground up, without any prior GitHub Actions knowledge assumed or required.

In order to handle growing development and code complexity and deploy application updates with high frequency, powerful automation platforms and tools are required. As you will learn throughout this course, GitHub Actions is such a platform, enabling you to automate anything from code testing, building and deployment all the way up to GitHub repository and project management.

With this course, you'll learn:

About all key GitHub Actions building blocks & components

How to build and orchestrate both simple and complex workflows

How to connect workflows to events & configure event details

How to run jobs or job steps conditionally

How to manage environment variables

How to handle job results, outputs and inputs

How to leverage community actions

How to build custom actions

How to secure workflows and jobs

And much more!

This course requires no prior GitHub Actions knowledge. You also don't need to be an advanced developer or Git / GitHub user, though fundamental development and Git knowledge is recommended - though the course does come with a Git & GitHub refresher module.

This course is a practice-oriented courses, exploring all key concepts whilst diving into concrete examples. You'll build different workflows for multiple projects and requirements.

You will also learn how to interact with GitHub APIs and implement third-party (and custom) Actions into your workflows.