⚙️ GitHub Actions: Beginner to Pro
Coming October 2025! 👀
DevOps Directive is building the definitive, free GitHub Actions course. Stay tuned for in-depth videos, hands-on examples, and written lessons.
- YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DevOpsDirective
- [WIP] Companion Repo (⭐️s appreciated!): https://github.com/sidpalas/devops-directive-github-actions-course
🙌 Sponsored by Namespace Labs
This course is made possible thanks to namespace.so, the best way level up your software build and developer workflows!
- Faster GitHub Actions: Hosted GHA runners for faster runs at a fraction of the cost!
- Faster Docker Builds: Remote Docker builders for massive container build speedups!
- Continuous Integration Visibility: Clear metrics and analytics to enable further CI optimization!
📚 Course Outline
- History & Motivation: why pipeline automation matters and the deployment metrics it influences.
- Why GitHub Actions: managed runners, marketplace, and comparisons with other CI/CD tools.
- Core Features: workflows, jobs, steps, events, expressions, and secrets.
- Advanced Features: permissions, third-party authentication, caching, artifacts, and runner options.
- Marketplace Actions: discover and safely consume community actions.
- Authoring Actions: composite, reusable, JavaScript, and container actions.
- Common Workflows: validate, build, deploy, and automate your repository.
- Developer Experience: run locally with act, debug runs, and gather insights.
- Best Practices: performance tuning, maintainability, and security.
- Capstone Project: apply everything in a hands-on final project!