⚙️ GitHub Actions: Beginner to Pro

Coming October 2025! 👀

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DevOps Directive is building the definitive, free GitHub Actions course. Stay tuned for in-depth videos, hands-on examples, and written lessons.

🙌 Sponsored by Namespace Labs

This course is made possible thanks to namespace.so, the best way level up your software build and developer workflows!

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  • 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!