GitHub Actions: Hello World
Create a GitHub Action and use it in a workflow.
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Automation is key for streamlining your work processes, and GitHub Actions are the best way to supercharge your workflow.
What you'll learn
- Organize and identify workflow files
- Add executable scripts
- Create workflow and action blocks
- Trigger workflows
- Discover workflow logs
What you'll build
- A working action, including a Dockerfile, an entrypoint script, and a workflow file
Prerequisites
In this course you will work with issues and pull requests, as well as edit files. If these things are unfamiliar to you, we recommend you take the Introduction to GitHub course, first!
Projects used
The main feature introduced in this course is GitHub Actions. To learn even more, check out the GitHub Actions feature page, or the GitHub Actions documentation.
Audience
Developers, DevOps engineers, students, managers, teams, GitHub users, people interested in automation
Steps to complete this course 7
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Add a Dockerfile
Start your action by creating a Dockerfile
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Add an entrypoint script
Script out how your action will run with an entrypoint script
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Add an action.yml file
Create the necessary metadata for the action
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Start your workflow file
Get your workflow kicked off with the workflow file
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Run an action from your workflow file
Specify a job and call actions within your workflow file
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Trigger the workflow
See your push trigger the workflow you've created and run your action
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Incorporate the workflow
Merge your branch for the workflow to become incorporated
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Average time to complete
36 minutes
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