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GitHub Actions Learning Lab Workshops Guide:

GitHub Actions is an advanced feature of GitHub that enables automation, artifact management and CI/CD natively. This workshop aims to educate you on how to implement these workflows across your projects on GitHub. We encourage you not to skip Phase 1 as this is the most important step to implementing actions and workflows that conform to modern best practices.

Your moderator will likely be vastly out numbered during your workshop - therefore please rely heavily on the documentation provided and available on help.github.com. When you are complete, feel free to ask for feedback from your moderator and remember the best way to learn is to teach!

Phase 1: IMPORTANT Read the Docs

The goal of Phase 1 is to understand the major concepts that will be leveraged throughout the workshop. Documentation should be read carefully and referred to often.

  1. Understanding Actions.
  2. Creating a workflow.
  3. Integrating a 3rd party service with the repository dispatch event.
  4. GitHub API - Creating an Issue.
  5. How to use Postman to send an API request. Postman

Phase 2: Create your first action

The goal of Phase 2 is to Create a simple GitHub Action and use it in a workflow.

  1. Go to the hello world actions module
  2. In this phase, you’ll learn how to:
  • Organize and identify workflow files
  • Add executable scripts
  • Create workflow and action blocks
  • Trigger workflows
  • Discover workflow logs

Phase 3: Continuous Integration with Actions

The goal of Phase 3 is to Learn how to create workflows that enable you to use Continuous Integration (CI) for your projects.

  1. Go to the Continuous Integration actions module
  2. In this phase, you’ll learn how to:
  • Describe CI and why it is necessary
  • Use and customize a templated workflow
  • Create CI workflows that match the team's needs and behaviors
  • Use the repository's source code and build artifacts (like compiled source code) across jobs in a workflow
  • Implement a unit testing framework using GitHub Actions
  • Create a workflow that runs tests and produces test reports
  • Set up a matrix build to create build artifacts for multiple target platforms
  • Save a repository's build artifacts
  • Access saved build artifacts
  • Choose virtual environments for the application's CI needs

Phase 4: Publish your Artifact to GitHub Packages

The goal of Phase 4 is to walk you through using GitHub Actions to get your code in a deployable state once your CI workflows have completed.

  1. Go to the Artifact Publishing actions module
  2. In this phase, you’ll learn how to:
  • Describe CD and why it is necessary
  • Use and customize a repository workflow
  • Create CD workflows that matches the team's needs and behaviors
  • Use the repository's source code to build artifacts and store them in the GitHub Packages
  • Save repository build artifacts
  • Access saved build artifacts

Phase 5: Continuous Delivery

The goal of Phase 5 is to Create two deployment workflows using AWS or Azure.

  1. Go to the Continuous Delivery actions module
  2. In this phase, you’ll learn how to:
  • Create two workflow files
  • Configure AWS S3 for deployment
  • Use secrets to store tokens
  • Deploy to staging and production
  • Practice using GitHub Actions