Practical GitHub Actions
1h 19mAdvanced2023-05-26
Authors

Ray Villalobos
Senior Staff Instructor at LinkedIn Learning
Course details
For developer professionals, solving problems is a vital part of the job—particularly solving problems that keep coming up. GitHub Actions will let you automate your repetitive problems away, and in this course—created in partnership with GitHub—Ray Villalobos shows you how to set them up to tackle real-world projects. Ray starts with the basics of Actions, going over what you can do with them and how they work. He then shows you the steps necessary to publish a marketplace action, including creating a workflow, a generator repo Dockerfile, entry point, and action.yml file. Finally, Ray takes you through testing and releasing your GitHub Action.
If you’re a developer looking to advance your career, or a recent computer science grad searching for a developer role, check out this course to learn practical skills to add your portfolio and enhance your standing in a competitive job market.
If you’re a developer looking to advance your career, or a recent computer science grad searching for a developer role, check out this course to learn practical skills to add your portfolio and enhance your standing in a competitive job market.
Skills covered
Version ControlGitHubSoftware Development ToolsSoftware DevelopmentOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Creating a MarketPlace GitHub action
- 02 - Using the slides
1. Action Basics
- 03 - How actions work
- 04 - Creating a repo and GitHub Pages
- 05 - Python to process YAML with Codespaces
- 06 - Finishing up the RSS feed
2. Publishing a Marketplace Action
- 07 - Creating a workflow with existing actions
- 08 - Creating a generator repo Dockerfile
- 09 - Creating an entry point
- 10 - Crafting an action.yml file
- 11 - Testing your actions
- 12 - Creating a release
Next Steps
- 13 - What's next
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