Authoring and Maintaining GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions allow you to automate repetitive tasks and enforce consistent processes across projects. This course will teach you how to create and distribute a custom GitHub Action that you can share internally or with the broader community.
What you'll learn
Many development teams struggle with automating repetitive tasks and enforcing consistent processes across projects, leading to inefficiencies and potential errors. In this course, Authoring and Maintaining GitHub Actions, you’ll learn to create, manage, and distribute custom GitHub Actions to streamline your workflows and enhance code quality. First, you’ll explore how to choose the appropriate action type for specific problems. Next, you’ll discover how to author the essential components and directory structure needed to create an action. Finally, you’ll learn how to version and distribute your custom action. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of GitHub Actions needed to pass the GitHub Actions certification.
Table of contents
- Distributing Private or Public Actions 5m
- Recommendations for Sharing Your Action 2m
- Demo: Documenting an Action 5m
- Demo: Implementing Community Health Files 3m
- Demo: Building and Tagging an Action 5m
- Demo: Using a Private Action 3m
- Demo: Publishing to the GitHub Marketplace 4m
- Course Wrap-up and What's Next 2m
About the author
Kamran is a full-stack web developer who lives in beautiful Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the founder of Keep Track of My Games, which is like Goodreads but for gamers. He also helps maintain the Excalibur.js TypeScript game engine and speaks regularly at conferences like NDC and React Summit. Previously, he worked as an enterprise web developer for over 12 years for companies like Target and General Mills until he quit to spend more time with family and take summers off. He loves sharing what h... more