Full GitHub Actions Course [FREE] 💥📽️🚀

In this GitHub Actions Tutorial you will be able to go from zero to hero in 90 minutes. By the end of this course, you will have a deep understanding of the concepts and a great overall big picture of how GitHub Actions works and is used in the whole software development process.

And the best part? It is completely free, and takes only 90 minutes!

The course is a mix of theoretic explanations and hands-on demos to follow along, so you get your first hands-on experience with Actions and feel more confident using it in your projects.

The course is available here: 🤓

Course Overview 📘

This is what this course is all about:

1. GitHub Actions Overview

What is GitHub Actions

Advantages of GitHub Actions over other CI platforms

Key functionalities of GitHub Actions

Actions components: Events, Triggers, Workflows, Actions

Types of Actions: JavaScript vs Container

Actions Creation: Monolithic vs Chainable

Starter workflows

GitHub Actions Syntax

Governance of GitHub Actions

Debug and Troubleshooting

2. Actions CI, CD & Release

CI Workflows structure

Matrix build

CI Workflows examples: Docker, Web Apps, etc.

CD Workflows structure

CD Workflows examples: Docker, Azure, AWS, Serverless, ECS, Kubernetes, etc.

GitHub Actions Environments overview

Protection Rules and Approvals

Deployment Logs overview

GitHub Actions Environments: creation, management, and usage

3. Self-Hosted Runners

Difference between Hosted runners and Self-hosted runners

Configure Self-hosted runners

Runner Groups and why to use them

Best practices for Self-hosted runners

Dynamically scale Self-hosted runners

4. Secret Management

GitHub Actions Secrets Overview

Type of Secrets: Organization vs Repository vs Environment

Limitation of GitHub Secrets

Secrets: creation, management, and usage

Third party actions for secrets (Azure KeyVault, and more)

5. Advanced GitHub Actions

API availability

Passing Parameters to Actions

Repository Dispatch with custom events

Control the flow of the workflow with Conditionals

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