GitHub Actions Workshop

Welcome to the GitHub Actions workshop! This workshop will teach you how to use GitHub Actions to automate your workflows.

What are GitHub Actions?

GitHub Actions are a way to automate your workflows. Anything that needs to be done every time something happens it typically a job for machines. GitHub Actions can trigger any time code changes, a pull request is opened, a new release is created, and more. You can even add a button in the GitHub UI to trigger a workflow manually.

Typical use cases for GitHub Actions include:

• Running tests
• Building and deploying applications
• Sending notifications
• Creating releases
• Checking for security vulnerabilities

Ok, that's the introduction out of the way, let's get started!

What will we do in this workshop?

The workshop consists of five main tasks:

1. Create a workflow
2. Building code in a workflow
3. Running multiple jobs
4. Running jobs in parallel
5. Deploying to GitHub Pages
6. Using other events to run workflows

Prerequisites

• A GitHub account
• A text editor (e.g. Visual Studio Code)

If you don't want to use a text editor, it's possible to do everything on https://github.dev, which essentially is a web-based version of Visual Studio Code.

0 Getting started

1. Click the "Use this template" button at the top of this repository to create a new repository from this template. If you need to decide, set your own user as the owner of the new repository.
2. Call the repository gh-actions-workshop.

If you're doing things locally:

3. Clone your new repository
4. Open your new repository in your text editor

If you're doing things on https://github.dev:

3. Open your repository on https://github.dev/[your-username]/gh-actions-workshop

Now you're ready to go! Please proceed to task 1.