GitHub Actions Tutorial: Development Automation Training

This intermediate GitHub training prepares learners to use GitHub Actions to speed up their development processes and workflows.

Learning automation is essential to succeed in the fast-paced world of IT. Automation not only helps you perform more work, it lets you do so with less errors.

If you’ve been using GitHub for a while, this is the perfect course for you, as it allows you to tackle real-world projects that will teach you how to speed up your time to deployment and help you minimize the number of issues that arise in your workflows due to human error.

For managers with GitHub products, this GitHub training can be used to onboard new cloud engineers and DevOps professionals, curated into individual or team training plans, or as a GitHub reference resource.

GitHub Actions: What You Need to Know

This GitHub Actions training covers GitHub topics including:

Creating GitHub Actions Workflows in order to publish modules
Creating databases and using MySQL Service Container
Using GitHub Actions and GitHub Packages in tandem
Developing projects by using GitHub Codespaces

Who Should Take GitHub Actions Training?

This GitHub training is considered intermediate-level training, which means it was designed for professionals with at least one year of experience. This GitHub course is valuable for new or aspiring IT professionals, experienced cloud engineers or DevOps professionals looking to validate their skills.

Github Actions training for beginners. This course was created for professionals who are familiar with GitHub or other version control systems, but that doesn’t mean beginners won’t benefit from this course. Beginners with a curiosity for GitHub will benefit from this course as it’ll give them a look at the real-world tasks they can expect to perform at some point in their careers.

Experienced IT professionals. If you’ve been using GitHub for years, you may have performed many of the tasks covered in this course. But this training still deserves a watch as it can fill in knowledge gaps or show you how to leverage tools you may be unfamiliar with.

Skill:
Developing Projects with GitHub Codespaces
- 1. Overview
  1 min
- 2. Intro to GitHub Codespaces
  9 mins
- 3. Enable and Provision GitHub Codespaces
  12 mins
- 4. Customize GitHub Codespaces Dev Container
  15 mins
- 5. Add User-Specific Customizations to GitHub Codespaces
  14 mins
- 6. Add User-Specific Secrets to GitHub Codespaces
  7 mins
- 7. Conclusion
  1 min
Skill:
Automatically Publish PowerShell Modules from GitHub Actions
- 1. Overview
  1 min
- 2. Intro to Publishing PowerShell Modules with GitHub Actions
  9 mins
- 3. Create a PowerShell Module in GitHub Repository
  11 mins
- 4. Create GitHub Actions Workflow to Publish Module
  12 mins
- 5. Auto-increment Build Number in GitHub Repository
  19 mins
- 6. Conclusion
  1 min
Skill:
Working with Environment Variables in GitHub Actions
- 1. Overview
  1 min
- 2. Intro to GitHub Actions Variables and Contexts
  15 mins
- 3. Set Root-level Environment Variables in GitHub Actions
  11 mins
- 4. GitHub Actions: Environment Variable Order of Precedence
  8 mins
- 5. Setting Variables with Multiple Job Definitions
  12 mins
- 6. Conclusion
  1 min
Skill:
Use Service Containers in GitHub Actions
- 1. Overview
  1 min
- 2. Intro to Service Containers in GitHub Actions
  12 mins
- 3. Build GitHub Actions Workflow with MySQL Service Container
  13 mins
- 4. Refactor GitHub Actions Workflow and Create Database
  15 mins
- 5. Run GitHub Actions Steps in Docker Network
  8 mins
- 6. Conclusion
  1 min
Skill:
Using GitHub Actions Workflow Commands
- 1. Overview
  1 min
- 2. Intro to GitHub Actions Workflow Commands
  15 mins
- 3. Create Annotations with GitHub Actions Workflow Commands
  14 mins
- 4. Group Log Messages in GitHub Actions with Workflow Commands
  12 mins
- 5. Set Outputs for GitHub Actions Workflow Steps
  11 mins
- 6. Mask Sensitive Values with GitHub Actions Workflow Commands
  5 mins
- 7. Conclusion
  1 min
Skill:
Manage GitHub Actions Workflows with Deployments and Environments
- 1. Overview
  1 min
- 2. Understanding GitHub Actions Environments
  9 mins
- 3. Create Environments and Explore Deployment Gates
  10 mins
- 4. Create GitHub Actions Workflow Using Environment Targets
  9 mins
- 5. Configure Secrets on GitHub Actions Environments
  7 mins
- 6. Update Workflow to Utilize Environment Secrets
  8 mins
- 7. Use IAM Resource Tags to Limit Environment Access
  15 mins
- 8. Conclusion
  1 min
Skill:
Automatically Publish Container Images with GitHub Packages and Actions
- 1. Overview
  1 min
- 2. Intro to Building Container Images with GitHub Actions
  13 mins
- 3. Create Your GitHub Repository and Dockerfile
  10 mins
- 4. Build GitHub Actions Workflow for Container Registry Auth
  11 mins
- 5. Include Container Build and Push Step in GitHub Actions
  12 mins
- 6. Build Multiple Container Images with Single GitHub Actions Worfklow
  14 mins
- 7. Conclusion
  1 min
Skill:
Execute GitHub Actions Workflows on Self-hosted Runners
- 1. Overview
  1 min
- 2. Intro to GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runners
  13 mins
- 3. Install GitHub Runner on Cloud VMs
  14 mins
- 4. GitHub Runner Custom Labels and Dependencies
  9 mins
- 5. Develop Workflow Using Self-Hosted GitHub Runners
  8 mins
- 6. Define Multiple Jobs for Self-Hosted GitHub Runners
  7 mins
- 7. Troubleshooting GitHub Actions and Cleanup
  8 mins
- 8. Conclusion
  1 min

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GitHub Actions Tutorial: Development Automation FAQs: Cost, Training, Value

What is GitHub Actions and what is it best for?

GitHub Actions is an automation tool and feature of GitHub that streamlines software development workflows. With GitHub, developers can automate tasks like building, testing, and deploying code, directly from their GitHub repositories. Developers who understand how to use GitHub Actions can create custom workflows that get triggered by various events, like pushes, pull requests, or scheduled tasks. GitHub Actions is best for CI/CD and automating repetitive tasks in development.

Can continuous integration and continuous deployment be automated with GitHub Actions?

Yes, one of the things GitHub Action is best known for is automating continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes. Developers who know how to use GitHub Actions can set up CI/CD workflows that automatically build and test code according to your triggers. With GitHub Actions, it's possible to automatically deploy code to production after successful tests. Learning to use GitHub Actions accelerates development and makes update delivery faster.

What are the differences between Jenkins pipeline and GitHub Actions?

The key difference between Jenkins Pipeline and GitHub Actions lies in where they're integrated. GitHub Actions is tightly integrated with GitHub repos, making it very easy to set up and manage your workflows inside the GitHub ecosystem. Jenkins Pipeline would have to be part of an entirely separate CI/CD server, and although its scripted and declarative syntax allows for greater flexibility and its feature set is more extensible, the configurations are more complex.

What are the different types of GitHub Actions?

There are many different types of actions you can take with GitHub Actions in automating workflows, including actions related to Setup, Build and Test, Deployment, Notifications, and Utility. The different types of GitHub Actions allow you to configure the runtime environment for workflows, compile code and run tests, automate deployment processes to staging or production environments, send notifications and status updates via messaging services, or perform miscellaneous tasks like data processing.

Who should take this GitHub Actions course?

Software development professionals – including developers, DevOps engineers, and release managers – would benefit the most from a course like this that covers development automation using GitHub Actions. If you have anything to do with building, testing, or deploying software, this course can help you expand your career with a better understanding of streamlining workflows, reliable software releases and better overall efficiency. For many developers, GitHub Actions is the key to successful CI/CD.

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