Intro to GitHub Actions

echo `whoami`

Software Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer

• Likes Go and javascript
• Helps maintain npm module N for node version management
• Also likes containers, cloud computing and open source

What is a GitHub action?

"GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD. Build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub. Make code reviews, branch management, and issue triaging work the way you want."

https://github.com/features/actions

What is a GitHub action?

Workflow

Event 

Trigger

Do something

What kind of Triggers?

• Push
• Pull request
• create tag
• create branch
• Issue comment created
• Issue labeled applied
• Issue is opened
• Make private repo public
• Scheduled 

https://help.github.com/en/github/automating-your-workflow-with-github-actions/events-that-trigger-workflows

So what?

Continuos Integration

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/what-is-continuous-integration

Continuous Integration (CI) is the process of automating the build and testing of code every time a team member commits changes to version control.

Continuous integration

• TravisCI
• CircleCI
• Jenkins
• TeamCity
• GitLab
• Azure Pipelines
• AWS Code Build
• GCP Cloud build

Continuous Delivery

Continuous Delivery (CD) is the process to build, test, configure and deploy from a build to a production environment.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/what-is-continuous-delivery

Continuous Delivery

• Jenkins 
• Jenkins X
• TeamCity
• GitLab
• Azure Pipelines
• AWS Code Pipeline
• Spinnaker

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/what-is-continuous-delivery

So how does this help me?

No more of this

So how does this help me?

• Your pipeline is where you put your code
• It's closer to the configuration 
• Potentially faster (benchmarks pending)
• One place to debug 
• Customize to your liking

Demo time

https://github.com/troy0820/github-actions-presentation

Demo time

Questions?

Thank you