⚙️ GitHub Actions

You can find some Github actions in the .github/workflows folder as well as notes below.

Helpful Tips

• One of several helpful GH Actions tutorials
• VSCode folding
  • Because GH actions can turn into very large files it would be helpful to make sure folding is enabled in your IDE.
• Keyboard shortcuts related to Folding in VSCode
• 🔌 GitHub Actions VSCode Extension
  • Bring up a terminal in your VSCode editor to see the Problems tab to view detected issues in your Workflows.
  • The built-in Actions runner/viewer is not very good.
• Actions Cheatsheet
• 🛍️ GitHub Actions Marketplace

📙 Notes

• Chapter 1 - Core Concepts
  • Event Workflow Triggers
  • Jobs
  • Artifacts Upload/Download
  • Using Concurrency
  • 🕰️ Timeouts
  • Environment Variable Storage
  • Repository Level Secrets/Variables
  • Example GitHub Actions
• Chapter 1.1 - Core Concepts
  • Matrix Strategies (Example #11)
  • Contexts
  • Expressions (Example #13)
  • Workflow Event Filters and Activity Types
  • Skipping workflow runs
  • Debug Logging
  • Workflow Logs via RestAPI (No example workflow)
  • Workflow Dispatch Inputs (Example #15)
  • Triggers Events with Webhooks
• Chapter 2 - Additional Deployment Concepts
  • Expressions
  • Status Check Functions
  • Cache Dependencies for a Job
  • GitHub Packages
  • Publish Node.js packages
  • Job Container
  • Service Containers
• Chapter 3 - Kubernetes Based Deploy Concepts
• Adding a KUBECONFIG file to your action
  • Using the KUBECONFIG file and setting context
  • Kubernetes Placeholders
  • Setting an Environment Variable
  • Passing values between steps and jobs in a workflow
  • Understanding GitHub Environments
• Chapter 4 - Reusable Actions
  • Reusing workflows
  • Sharing actions in a private repo
  • Secrets in Reusable Workflows
  • Using Outputs from a Reusable Workflow
  • Starter Workflows
• Chapter 5 - Custom Actions

Retrieve Chapter Concepts from Markdown Files

ggrep "^##" Chapter-1.md | sed 's/^##/-/'