Getting Started with GitHub Actions

What you'll learn

In this course, Getting Started with GitHub Actions, you’ll learn how to automate and customize your software development workflow by using GitHub Actions. First, you’ll explore how a GitHub Action functions by learning its core concepts and key characteristics. Next, you’ll take a hands-on approach in a GitHub project repository by using a featured template workflow file with continuous integration (CI) and customize it with unit tests, build artifacts, and environment variables. Finally, you’ll learn how to use community GitHub Actions from the GitHub Marketplace to extend your customized software development workflow. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to use GitHub actions to extend, automate, and customize your workflow experience and lay the foundation for you to take the next step and create your own custom GitHub Actions.

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