GitHub Actions - The Complete Guide
Learn how to build automated CI / CD workflows with GitHub's DevOps service.
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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 experience 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.
10+
hours
140+
lessons
Course Curriculum
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StartModule Introduction (1:28)
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StartGetting Started with Git (3:12)
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StartConfiguring Git
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StartProject Setup (1:55)
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StartWorking with (Local) Git Repositories (4:19)
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StartStaging Files & Creating Commits (6:52)
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StartMultiple Commits & Checking Out Snapshots (7:46)
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StartReverting Changes with "git revert" (3:50)
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StartResetting Code with "git reset" (2:14)
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StartStaging Multiple Files & Ignoring with gitignore (5:32)
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StartUnderstanding Branches (5:08)
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StartWorking with Branches (3:37)
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StartMerging Branches (8:31)
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StartGitHub Introduction (2:29)
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StartCreating a GitHub Account (3:18)
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StartCreating a (Remote) GitHub Repository-repository (2:04)
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StartConnecting Local & Remote Repositories (2:48)
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StartPushing Commits & Understanding Permissions (6:01)
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StartGitHub & Branches (6:02)
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StartReadme Files & Pulling Changes (5:39)
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StartCloning Repositories (8:44)
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StartMaking Changes As A Different User (Non-Owner) (1:50)
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StartGitHub Issues & Collaborators (9:02)
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StartWorking with Pull Requests (8:01)
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StartUnderstanding & Using Forks (8:42)
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StartModule Summary (0:42)
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StartModule Introduction (1:24)
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StartKey Components: Workflows, Jobs, Steps & More (5:31)
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StartGitHub Actions: Availability & Pricing
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StartCreating a First Workflow (10:58)
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StartRunning the First Workflow (3:44)
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StartRunning Multi-Line Shell Commands
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StartOnwards to a More Realistic Example (6:55)
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StartA New Workflow & The "push" Event (7:32)
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StartUsing Actions In Workflows (4:35)
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StartChecking Out Code In Workflows (3:10)
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StartConfiguring Actions (2:29)
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StartAdding More Workflow Job Steps (4:32)
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StartFailing Workflows & Analyzing Workflows (3:45)
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StartAdding Multiple Jobs (6:03)
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StartJobs: In Parallel vs Sequential (3:48)
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StartUsing Multiple Triggers (Events) (2:41)
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StartExpressions & Context Objects (7:02)
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StartModule Summary (3:52)
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StartTime to Practice: The Problem (3:38)
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StartTime to Practice: Solution (17:50)
Course Prerequisites
Basic IT knowledge is required
NO prior Git or GitHub knowledge is necessary at all
All pre-requisites are covered by courses in our "Academind Pro" Membership.
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