github-actions-learning

This repository is dedicated to documenting and practising various features of GitHub Actions. By following a comprehensive YouTube tutorial, I explored essential concepts and advanced techniques to create, manage, and optimize GitHub workflows.

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Topics Covered

Basics of GitHub Actions

• Introduction to GitHub and GitHub Actions
• Creating a simple GitHub workflow
• Running workflows manually with inputs
• Disabling a GitHub workflow

Scheduling Workflows

• How to schedule workflows using CRON:
  • Minutes (0-59)
  • Hours (0-23)
  • Days of the month (1-31)
  • Months (1-12)
  • Days of the week (0-6)

Dependencies and Outputs

• Managing dependencies between jobs in workflows
• Using steps outputs and job outputs

Environment Variables

• Understanding workflow, step, and job-level environment variables
• Setting environment variables programmatically

Variables and Secrets

• Using and managing variables and secrets securely

Artifacts

• Downloading artifacts in a workflow
• Downloading artifacts from another workflow
• Accessing artifacts using another workflow by run number

Concurrency

• Managing workflow concurrency
• Managing job concurrency

Composite Actions

• Creating composite actions
• Passing inputs, outputs, and versioning in composite actions
• Using composite actions in the same repository
• Executing scripts from composite actions

Reusable Workflows

• Setting up and using reusable workflows

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Resources

• GitHub Actions Documentation