The Complete GitHub Actions & Workflows Guide

Automate Code Testing, Deployment & Versioning using CI/CD Workflows. Create & Publish GitHub Actions to the Marketplace

Created by: Ali Alaa
Front-end Web Developer

What Will I 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.

Requirements

• You should have basic GitHub knowledge
• Some lectures will require some basic docker knowledge (it's not necessary if you want to skip it)
• Creating custom actions requires JavaScript and/or docker knowledge
• For some sections some stuff must be installed on your machine including: nodejs, npm, docker, composer, php.
• The last section requires an AWS account if you follow actively and you might be charged.

Target audience

• 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.