The Complete GitHub Actions Workflows Guide

The Complete GitHub Actions & Workflows Guide, available at $84.99, has an average rating of 4.6, with 150 lectures, 2 quizzes, based on 3504 reviews, and has 25327 subscribers.

You will learn about Learn about writing serialized data in the YAML format. Learn about all the GitHub Actions concepts (Workflows, Steps, Jobs, Actions, etc..) Discover everything you can do in a GitHub workflow (events, schedules, filtering, environment variables, context, encryption, matrix and more) Learn how docker can be used in a GitHub workflow Create a real-life CI/CD workflow for code testing, formatting, versioning and more. Use caching in workflows for an improved performance. Learn about uploading artifacts in workflows. Learn about how to create your own custom GitHub Actions using Javascript or Docker Create an action for opening GitHub issues using JavaScript. Create an action for sending slack messages using PHP. Learn how to publish GitHub actions in the GitHub marketplace. This course is ideal for individuals who are Developers/Software engineers who need to learn everything about GitHub Workflows & Actions. or Developers/Software engineers who want to create a CI/CD workflow using GitHub or Developers/Software engineers who would like to learn how to create and publish GitHub Actions. It is particularly useful for Developers/Software engineers who need to learn everything about GitHub Workflows & Actions. or Developers/Software engineers who want to create a CI/CD workflow using GitHub or Developers/Software engineers who would like to learn how to create and publish GitHub Actions.

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Summary

Title: The Complete GitHub Actions & Workflows Guide

Price: $84.99

Average Rating: 4.6

Number of Lectures: 150

Number of Quizzes: 2

Number of Published Lectures: 87

Number of Curriculum Items: 152

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 87

Original Price: $99.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Learn about writing serialized data in the YAML format.

Learn about all the GitHub Actions concepts (Workflows, Steps, Jobs, Actions, etc..)

Discover everything you can do in a GitHub workflow (events, schedules, filtering, environment variables, context, encryption, matrix and more)

Learn how docker can be used in a GitHub workflow

Create a real-life CI/CD workflow for code testing, formatting, versioning and more.

Use caching in workflows for an improved performance.

Learn about uploading artifacts in workflows.

Learn about how to create your own custom GitHub Actions using Javascript or Docker

Create an action for opening GitHub issues using JavaScript.

Create an action for sending slack messages using PHP.

Learn how to publish GitHub actions in the GitHub marketplace.

Who Should Attend

Developers/Software engineers who need to learn everything about GitHub Workflows & Actions.

Developers/Software engineers who want to create a CI/CD workflow using GitHub

Developers/Software engineers who would like to learn how to create and publish GitHub Actions.

Target Audiences

Developers/Software engineers who need to learn everything about GitHub Workflows & Actions.

Developers/Software engineers who want to create a CI/CD workflow using GitHub

Developers/Software engineers who would like to learn how to create and publish GitHub Actions.

NOTE: The last section in the course requires an AWS account and you might be charged if you follow the section actively. Check the promo video for more information.

GitHub recently released GitHub Actions”, a CI service competitor to services like TravisCI and CircleCI. GitHub Actions however has the edge of being natively integrated with your GitHub repository. In addition to that, thanks to GitHub’s popularity; GitHub Actions has the advantage of having large ecosystem and community. Using GitHub Actions you will find a lot of official and community pre-made workflows and also the actions marketplace. In the actions marketplace you can find tons of actions which are reusable pieces of code that you can use in your workflows to perform certain tasks like deploying code, interacting with API’s, sending SMS’s, etc..

Learn everything you need to know in order to create GitHub workflows & Actions.

In this course we will comprehensively explore GitHub’s CI service. We are going to learn what GitHub workflows & actions are. And we will discover everything we can do in a GitHub workflow including how to run commands, use actions, trigger workflows, build matrices, reuse workflows, use docker and more.  We are going to learn how to write custom actions and publish them to the marketplace so that other people can use them.  Finally, we will use what we learned to create a real-world example of a CI/CD workflow where we will test, build, deploy a web application to AWS.

Let’s take a look at what will be discussed in each section in more detail:

Section 1

In section 1 we will have a conceptual introduction to Github Actions. We are going to learn what terms like workflows, actions, jobs, steps and other terms mean. We are also going to learn about YAML which is the format used to write workflows in GitHub. Then we will start writing our first workflow and take a look at basic things like writing commands, using different shells and using actions including the most common action which is the checkout action.

Section 2

In section 2 we will get a bit deeper and learn different ways that we can use in order to trigger a workflow to run. This includes GitHub events like push and pull_request, external events, manual events and CRON schedules. We will also see how to make a workflow only run for certain branches, tags and directory paths.

Section 3

In this section we will take a look at how to write expressing in a workflow. And how to use context information and functions in our workflows. We will also see how can we use default environment variables and also how to add custom environment variables. We will discover how to encrypt sensitive information and also how to encrypt and decrypt sensitive files that we don’t won’t to push to our repository. Moreover, we will take a look at the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable and how to use it to perform certain actions and how to customize its permissions.

Section 4

In section 4 we will see how can we setup matrices, a matrix is a way to run a job multiple times but using different configurations. We will also learn about concurrency and how to reuse our workflows to avoid duplication. We are also going to take a look at caching and uploading and downloading artifacts.

Section 5

In section 5 we are going to discuss using docker in GitHub Actions. We are going to see how to use docker images in our jobs and steps. We are also going to learn about running multiple service containers together and see how to communicate between them. Finally we are going to see how can we automate publishing docker images to DockerHub and the GitHub Container Registry.

Section 6

During the course we will use some actions that are available in the marketplace. But in this section we are going to learn how to create our own actions. Actions can be created using JavaScript or using Docker. In this section we are going to learn about both ways and then we will create a JavaScript action that opens GitHub issues and a docker action that sends a slack message which we will write using PHP. We will also discover another way of writing actions which is Composite Actions.

Section 7

In section 5 we will finally use our knowledge to create a real-world CI/CD example. In this section we are going to use an Amazon service called Elastic Beanstalk to deploy our app. We are going to use feature flags to continuously integrate and deploy our app without exposing all features to the end user. We are going to automate versioning our app and generating changelogs. In addition to that, we are going to add the option to deploy pull request branches to an isolated AWS environment and also add the option to destroy that environment. We are finally going to see how to use OpenID Connect to access AWS from our workflows without having to store any credentials. This section requires an AWS account and you might be charged if you follow the section actively.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction & Basic Concepts

Lecture 1: Before Starting the Course

Lecture 2: Introduction to GitHub Actions & Workflows

Lecture 3: Introduction to the YAML Format

Lecture 4: Lets Create Our First Workflow

Lecture 5: Parallel & Dependent Jobs

Lecture 6: An Overview to Managing Our Workflow Runs through the Web UI & the GitHub CLI

Lecture 7: Debugging Our Workflow Runs

Lecture 8: Skipping Workflow Runs

Lecture 9: Introduction to Workflow Commands

Lecture 10: Quick Note

Lecture 11: Shells & Working Directories

Lecture 12: Downloading Our Repository into the Runner Machine

Lecture 13: Introduction to Actions

Lecture 14: The Checkout Action

Chapter 2: Events that Trigger Workflows

Lecture 1: Repository Events (ex. Push, Pull Request, Issues)

Lecture 2: Events Activity Types

Lecture 3: Workflow Run Approval from Fork Pull Requests

Lecture 4: Using the Pull Request Target Event

Lecture 5: Running a Workflow Based on Another Workflow

Lecture 6: Filtering Our Workflow Runs by Branches, Tags and Paths

Lecture 7: Manually Triggering a Workflow from the GitHub Web UI, CLI and the REST API

Lecture 8: Using the Repository Dispatch Event for External Events

Lecture 9: Running Workflows on a Schedule

Chapter 3: Expressions, Contexts, Functions, Environment Variables & Secrets

Lecture 1: Expressions & Contexts

Lecture 2: The If Key & Expression Functions

Lecture 3: Status Check Functions

Lecture 4: Default & Custom Environment Variables

Lecture 5: Setting Environment Variables During the Execution of a Workflow

Lecture 6: Configuration Variables & Secrets

Lecture 7: Encrypting & Decrypting Large Files in a Workflow

Lecture 8: The GITHUB_TOKEN Secret & Customizing its Permissions

Chapter 4: Diving Deeper with More Advanced Github Actions Features

Lecture 1: Timeout Minutes & Continue on Error

Lecture 2: Running a Job Multiple Times Using a Matrix

Lecture 3: Including & Excluding Matrix Configurations

Lecture 4: Handling Failing Jobs in a Matrix

Lecture 5: Step and Job Outputs & Dynamic Matrices

Lecture 6: Running a Single Job or Workflow at a Time Using Concurrency

Lecture 7: Reusable Workflows

Lecture 8: Reusable Workflow Outputs

Lecture 9: Nesting Reusable Workflows

Lecture 10: Caching Files in Github Actions

Lecture 11: Updating Cache Keys Dynamically & Adding Restore Keys

Lecture 12: Cache Limits & Restrictions

Lecture 13: Uploading & Downloading Job Artifacts

Chapter 5: Using Docker in GitHub Actions

Lecture 1: Running Jobs in Docker Containers

Lecture 2: Using Docker Containers in Steps

Lecture 3: Exploring Shared Networks & Volumes Between Multiple Containers

Lecture 4: Creating a Custom Docker Entrypoint Script

Lecture 5: Sending a Slack Message Using a Docker Container

Lecture 6: An Overview to a Simple NodeJS Application

Lecture 7: Using Service Containers in GitHub Actions

Lecture 8: Publishing Docker Images Using GitHub Actions

Chapter 6: Creating & Publishing Our Own Actions

Lecture 1: Actions Overview

Lecture 2: Creating a Simple JavaScript Action

Lecture 3: Compiling The Actions JavaScript Code into One File

Lecture 4: Creating a Simple Docker Action

Lecture 5: Bundling Steps into an Action with Composite Actions

Lecture 6: Writing a Docker Action for Sending a Slack Message Using PHP (Part 1)

Lecture 7: Writing a Docker Action for Sending a Slack Message Using PHP (Part 2)

Lecture 8: Using an Official GitHub Template for Writing JavaScript Actions

Lecture 9: Creating a JavaScript Action for Opening Github Issues

Lecture 10: Creating Releases & Publishing Our Action to the Marketplace

Lecture 11: Automating Release Management For Our Action

Chapter 7: Lets Create a Complete CI/CD Workflow

Lecture 1: Introduction the Application that We are Going to Automate

Lecture 2: Lets Discuss Our Workflow Plan

Lecture 3: Using Flagsmith to Add Feature Flags to Our Project

Lecture 4: Deploying Our App to AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Lecture 5: Configuring Repository Protection Rules & Environments

Lecture 6: Creating a Workflow to Test Our App

Lecture 7: Fixing and Running Our Test Workflow & CodeQL on Pull Request

Lecture 8: Caching Playwright Browsers to Make Our Workflow Faster

Lecture 9: Creating a Workflow to Deploy to AWS Elastic Beanstalk (Part. 1)

Lecture 10: Creating a Workflow to Deploy to AWS Elastic Beanstalk (Part. 2)

Lecture 11: Testing Our Deploy Workflow

Lecture 12: Adding Changesets to Handle our Apps Versioning

Lecture 13: Creating a Version Pull Request on Pushing Changeset Files

Lecture 14: Testing & Deploying to Staging & Production when Merging Version Pull Requests

Lecture 15: Quick Note

Lecture 16: Deploying Pull Request Branches to Isolated AWS Environments (Part 1)

Lecture 17: Deploying Pull Request Branches to Isolated AWS Environments (Part 2)

Lecture 18: Terminating Pull Request AWS Environments

Lecture 19: Detecting Errors Before Committing Our Code Using Git Hooks

Lecture 20: Quick Note

Lecture 21: Using OIDC for AWS Authorization Instead of Storing Secrets

Lecture 22: Customizing the OIDC JWT Token Subject for More Granularity

Lecture 23: Quick Note

Chapter 8: Conclusion

Lecture 1: More Reading

Instructors

Ali Alaa
Front-end Web Developer

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