CI/CD with GitHub Actions

Category · DevOps

Build, test and deploy on every push

Workflows, events, jobs and steps, caching and matrices, secrets and environments, deploy and rollback. A pipeline that catches bugs before production.

5 lessons68 min

To the first lesson

Topics, each as its own lesson

01CI, CD and workflow anatomyDemo

How delivery differs from deployment and what a GitHub Actions YAML file is made of.

12 min02A pipeline for Node and TypeScript

Dependency caching, lint, types, tests, build and a Node version matrix.

13 min03Secrets, environments and least privilege

Where to keep keys, who can press deploy and why OIDC beats static keys.

14 min04Artifacts, Docker image and deploy

Build once, pass it on, push the image to a registry and keep two deploys from colliding.

14 min05Safe releases and rollback

Branch protection, rolling, blue-green, canary, rollback, workflow reuse and action pinning.

15 min

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