CI/CD and Beyond with GitHub Actions (NDC Sydney)

Presented at NDC Sydney 2020

GitHub Actions is an automation tool for any software workflow related to your repository. It's fantastic for CI/CD, and can deploy almost anything to almost anywhere. But the story doesn't stop there. In this session we'll start by looking at how you can deliver your software by building CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions. Then, we'll dive deeper to see how you can respond to almost any event. There are dozens of events that can trigger workflows, and extensibility points for reacting to events from external tools. Come see how these can be tied together in clever ways to automate everything around your codebase.

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1. @damovisa CI/CD and beyond with GitHub Actions Damian Brady Cloud Advocate, Microsoft @damovisa
2. @damovisa GitHub Actions! Exciting! So, um, what is it?
3. @damovisa GitHub Actions
4. @damovisa GitHub Actions https://github.com/features/actions 
5. @damovisa Let’s do some stuff! CI/CD with GitHub Actions
6. @damovisa Templates to get you started! Triggers Dependent jobs GitHub Actions for CI/CD
7. @damovisa There are a LOT of Actions https://github.com/marketplace/actions GitHub Actions … Actions
8. @damovisa There are a LOT of Triggers https://damo.ms/actions/triggers GitHub Actions Triggers
9. @damovisa Workflow syntax can be tricky https://damo.ms/actions/syntax ProTip: run: echo "${{ toJSON(github.event) }}" GitHub Actions Workflows
10. @damovisa Let’s do more stuff! Not-CI/CD with GitHub Actions
11. @damovisa Let’s do more stuff! Not-CI/CD with GitHub Actions https://brdy.in/DamoLight
12. @damovisa Thousands of Actions Unlimited Triggers (effectively) Unlimited workflows (as far as I can tell) GitHub Actions for Not CI/CD
13. @damovisa OK, but what about…
14. @damovisa • Approvals and gates • CD workflows OK, but what about… https://github.community/c/github-actions/
15. @damovisa Price?
16. @damovisa Price?
17. @damovisa GitHub Actions! Exciting! So, um, what is it?
18. @damovisa Questions? or even better, make me try stuff! Damian Brady Cloud Advocate, Microsoft @damovisa