GitHub Actions 2021-12-16

GitHub Actions overview
December 16, 2021

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1. GitHub Actions 2021-12-16 Sean Sullivan
2. Agenda GitHub Actions Core concepts Security
3. GITHUB ACTIONS
4. “GitHub Actions help you automate your software development work fl ows” source: GitHub.com
5. “You can write individual tasks, called actions, and combine them to create a custom work fl ow” source: GitHub.com
6. Getting started
7. Actions tab
8. Actions tab Starter Work fl ow
9. Work fl ow editor
10. Work fl ow editor
11. Work fl ow editor
12. Work fl ow editor checkout
13. Work fl ow editor setup-java
14. Work fl ow editor run: sbt test
15. Work fl ow editor click
16. Work fl ow editor click
17. .github/work fl ows
18. Actions tab
19. Actions tab
20. Actions tab
21. Ruby On Rails uses GitHub Actions
22. Ruby on Rails
23. Ruby on Rails
24. Ruby on Rails
25. Ruby on Rails
26. Redis Dropwizard Log4j Open source projects using GitHub Actions twilio-java Guardrail Net fl ix Zuul
27. Core concepts
28. Events Actions Work fl ows
29. create deployment deployment_status issue created pull_request push schedule label created (and many more) Events trigger work fl ows
30. Work fl ows are custom automated processes that you can set up in your repository to build, test, package, release, or deploy source: GitHub.com
31. GitHub webhooks GitHub Actions work fl ows
32. Actions are individual tasks that you can combine to create jobs source: GitHub.com
33. You can create custom Actions or use Actions provided by the GitHub community source: GitHub.com
34. action.yml declares the inputs and outputs for an action source: GitHub.com
35. Types of Actions: JavaScript Docker source: GitHub.com
36. “GitHub Actions is available with GitHub Free, GitHub Pro, GitHub Team, and GitHub Enterprise” source: GitHub.com
37. What if I already have an existing CI tool enabled?
38. Keep your existing CI tool and enable GitHub Actions
39. Evaluate both CI tools running side-by-side
40. Actions runtime Runners Virtual Environments
41. Runners GitHub-hosted Self-hosted
42. Hosted Runners “GitHub hosts Linux and Windows runners on Standard_DS2_v2 virtual machines in Microsoft Azure with the GitHub Actions runner application installed” source: GitHub.com
43. Self-Hosted Runners “Self-hosted runners can be physical, virtual, container, on-premises, or in a cloud” source: GitHub.com
44. Self-Hosted Runners
45. Self-Hosted Runners C Sharp
46. Virtual Environments
47. Ubuntu 20.04 Ubuntu 18.04 Linux support
48. Third party actions
49. AWS Actions Azure Actions Google Cloud Actions
50. Pulumi Actions Terraform Actions Docker Actions
51. https://github.com/aws-actions
53. AWS: action.yml
54. Security
55. Secrets access protected keys using the secrets context object source: GitHub.com
56. Secrets source: GitHub.com
57. Secrets source: GitHub.com
58. Secrets source: GitHub.com
59. Secrets source: GitHub.com
60. Self-Hosted Runners “do not use self- hosted runners with public repositories” source: GitHub.com
61. Self-Hosted Runners “Forks of your public repository can potentially run dangerous code on your self-hosted runner machine” source: GitHub.com
62. Final thoughts
63. “CI ensures that the code that we create, as a team, works by providing us with rapid feedback on any problems”
64. GitHub Actions YAML Automation Conclusion
65. Thank you twitter.com/tinyrobots github.com/sullis
66. Bonus slides
68. THE END