GitHub Actions: Continuous Integration

GitHub Actions makes it easier than ever to incorporate continuous integration (CI) into your repositories. ​ This course will get you from zero-to-CI by setting up two workflow files to automate the way you work.

What you'll learn

We'll answer common questions like:

• What is Continuous Integration?
• How do GitHub Actions and workflows enable CI?
• What are build artifacts and how are they used?
• How can a unit testing framework be implemented with GitHub Actions?

And when you're done you'll be able to:

• Describe the importance of GitHub Actions in Continuous Integration
• Use and customize a templated workflow
• Create CI workflows that match a team's needs and behaviors
• Use a repository's source code and build artifacts across jobs in a workflow
• Implement a unit testing framework using GitHub Actions
• Create a workflow that runs tests and produces test reports
• Set up a matrix build to create build artifacts for multiple target platforms
• Save and access a repository's build artifacts
• Choose virtual environments for an application's CI needs

What you'll build

In this course, we'll be walking through CI using GitHub Actions, and creating a Tic Tac Toe game!

Prerequisites

Before you start, you should be familiar with GitHub. We recommend taking the following two Learning Labs prior to this course:

• Introduction to GitHub
• Hello GitHub Actions!

And a great follow-on course is

• Continuous Delivery with GitHub Actions

Projects used

This course makes use of the following technologies:

• Node.js and npm
• Jest, a popular JavaScript testing framework.

Audience

Developers, DevOps Engineers, new GitHub users, students, teams