🤝 Become the Exclusive Headline Sponsor

Put your GitHub Actions tooling in front of 100,000+ CI/CD practitioners

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DevOps Directive is building the definitive, free GitHub Actions course and is searching for a partner to help bring it to life. If your product super-charges GitHub Actions with blazing-fast hosted runners, remote caching, deep observability, etc... this is for you!

Earn the trust of an engaged community of nearly 100k developers, and drive adoption as they level-up their CI/CD workflows.

  • 🎥 Comprehensive video tutorials
  • 💻 Hands-on GitHub repository
  • 📝 Complementary written lessons
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Launch Q3 2025 • 1 slot available • Deadline July 15

📺 YouTube Reach

Previous courses on Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes have each reached hundreds of thousands of viewers on YouTube (1.86M total views).

YouTube views of previous courses
1.8 million views and counting 🚀

💬 What Learners Are Saying

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Terraform
“I would give this 100 thumbs-up if I could. This is how a tutorial should be done—covering all the bases. The organization alone sets it apart from the many others I’ve seen. Subscribed!”
~ @Truncator
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Docker
“Honestly, the best Docker course on the internet—I can’t believe it’s free.”
~ @MrJony-fv3ev
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Kubernetes
“I am a Kubernetes Engineer and this is an awesome resource covering almost everything related to Kubernetes—except a few things like writing Controllers. Amazing work!”
~ @manidharanupoju
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Kubernetes
“This is an amazing resource. Great work, Sid. Thank you for making this for the community.”
~ @MadeByGPS

⭐ GitHub Momentum

The companion repositories for these courses each have 1k+ GitHub stars, along with many forks and watchers. Students aren’t just passively watching the videos, they’re actively working through the lessons.

Star history for course repositories
4.5k+ GitHub stars and climbing 📈

📣 Social Media Impact

The launch (and milestone) posts for each course drives high engagement from a large, relevant following across LinkedIn and Twitter/X.

Social media launch impressions
Such wow, much likes! 👀

📊 Developer Demand

The community has explicitly voiced its interest in a GitHub Actions course, with overwhelming poll support.

Poll showing demand for a GitHub Actions course
People yearn for GHA content! 🙏

📚 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 exercise. (Note: This will likely released as a separate video with paid access repo)