This is a brief introduction to Git, Github, and Github Actions. For the workshop material, visit github.com/devopsies/search-engine-app.
Git is a software for tracking changes in any set of files, usually used for coordinating work among programmers collaboratively developing source code during software development. For more information, visit git-scm.com/doc.
Github is a provider of Internet hosting for software development and version control using Git. It offers the distributed version control and source code management functionality of Git, plus its own features. For more information, visit docs.github.com/en/github.
GitHub Actions connects all of your tools to automate every step of your development workflow, including and not limited to CI/CD pipelines/jobs. It is hosted on Github (no installation required, as opposed to Jenkins). For more information, visit docs.github.com/en/actions.
In this workshop, we're going to pretend we're building a product in C++: our awesome search engine. First, fork this repository. Forking will create a copy of this repository under you Github account. Then clone the repository (the one you created when you forked) to create a local copy of it. When solving any of the following issues, start from your main branch, create and switch to a new local branch optimizing search or optimizing pipeline depending on the issue you're working on, then add and commit your changes locally, and finally push them to your forked repository on Github. Next, on Github, trigger a pull request (PR) in order to start merging you newly created branch in your forked repository, to our main branch in our original repository.
The following diagram shows the described workflow:
You're the developer. The product you're developing (the search engine) currently do not satisfy the requirements as it becomes very slow with a large amount of input. Refer to the issue at github.com/mdnfiras/devsecops-github-actions/issues/1 for more details. If you have any question regarding this task, you can leave a comment in that same issue.
You're a DevOps engineer. The CI pipeline you've set up is slow. refer to the issue at github.com/mdnfiras/devsecops-github-actions/issues/3 for more details. If you have any question regarding this task, you can leave a comment in that same issue.