Automate Workflow processes using GitHub Actions

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.

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1. AUTOMATE WORKFLOW PROCESSES USING GITHUB ACTIONS Automate everything possible SHODIPO AYOMIDE | GITHUB AFRICA, 2020, SAN FRANCISCO
2. Shodipo Ayomide Senior Developer Advocate & Developer Programs Manager - GitHub Star - Cloudinary Media Developer Expert - Community Evangelist Twitter & GitHub @developerayo
3. What are Github Action GitHub actions are simply little bit's of code that can be triggered under certain conditions. It also provides an easier way to add CI/CD processes into your project.
4. Workflow Automation GitHub actions allows you to write or setup indivitual actions and combine them to bring about a complete workflow automation.
5. Workflow Automation
6. One of the best way to increase produuctitvity in a project is to automate everything that can be automated which has been made easier thanks to GitHub Actions.
7. Every event that happens in your repo can trigger an atomated action - When a PR is pushed - When an Issue is opened - When a new branch is created - Create - Deployment - And More
8. You can also conisder GitHub Actions as this reusable code just like how you have npmjs as a package manager GitHub has a directory of GitHub actions created by the community of which you can impliment based on what exactly you would like to automate You could call i "GitHub Actions Manager" :)
9. You can create new actions or use already created action built by the community.
10. actions.yml, main.yml, anything.yml This is how GitHub actions identifies actions in .github/workflows/main.yml
11. This is how GitHub actions identifies actions in .github/workflows/main.yml
15. Each Actions are their own GitHub repository which you can fork and customize however you want it.
17. GitHub is super generios with how GitHub actions is commercialised Payments
18. GitHub actions is available for the GitHub free tier, GitHub Pro, GitHub Team, and GitHub Enterprise. Payments
19. A log as we all know is how we see the processes being run under the hood and if anything goes wrong we can read the log's and find out where the process fialed. GitHub Action Logs
20. GitHub Action Logs
21. GitHub Action Logs You can expand jobs to read more
22. GitHub Action Logs You can search workflow to find what exactly you are looking for in the action log.
23. The Status Badge of Honour
24. Resources https://github.com/Developerayo/github-africa-actions https://github.com/features/actions
25. Questions? Follow me on Twitter & GitHub @developerayo Thank You! SHODIPO AYOMIDE | GITHUB AFRICA, 2020, SAN FRANCISCO