Practical GitHub Actions
This course provides a comprehensive guide to GitHub Actions, a powerful tool that allows developers to automate repetitive tasks and solve recurring problems. It covers the fundamentals of GitHub Actions, the process of publishing a marketplace action, and the steps to create a workflow, a generator repo Dockerfile, entry point, and action.yml file. The course also includes practical exercises on testing and releasing GitHub Actions. This knowledge is essential for developers aiming to enhance their skills and efficiency, and for recent computer science graduates seeking to stand out in the competitive job market.
Skills for certificate:
GitHub
GitHub Actions
Python
Continuous Integration
Continuous Deployment
Continuous Delivery
Problem Solving
Critical Thinking
Infrastructure as Code
Version Control
DevOps
Automation
Practical GitHub Actions
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Description
This course provides a comprehensive guide to GitHub Actions, a powerful tool that allows developers to automate repetitive tasks and solve recurring problems. It covers the fundamentals of GitHub Actions, the process of publishing a marketplace action, and the steps to create a workflow, a generator repo Dockerfile, entry point, and action.yml file. The course also includes practical exercises on testing and releasing GitHub Actions. This knowledge is essential for developers aiming to enhance their skills and efficiency, and for recent computer science graduates seeking to stand out in the competitive job market.
Learning Objectives
- Understanding how GitHub actions work
- Creating a repository and GitHub Pages
- Using Python to process YAML with Codespaces
- Finalizing the RSS feed
- Creating a workflow with existing actions
- Creating a generator repository Dockerfile
- Creating an entry point
- Crafting an action.yml file
- Testing your GitHub actions
- Creating a release
- Planning for next steps in GitHub actions