Build and Trigger Our First GitHub Action

Explore how to build and trigger your first GitHub Action workflow by creating a repository, writing a workflow file, and pushing it to GitHub. Understand the components of a workflow, how to authenticate using access tokens, and verify successful execution through GitHub's Actions tab. This lesson helps you start automating tasks and lays the foundation for more complex CI/CD workflows.

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Creating and cloning a GitHub repository
Creating our first workflow

Now that we have a general understanding of what the components of an action are let's build one and explore how the components are structured and interact.

Creating and cloning a GitHub repository

If this is our first time creating and cloning a repository, we may find the following links useful:

When creating the repository, we normally add README.md, .gitignore, and an Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) license file. For the sake of this demo, we won't include these in the new repositories we create. Use these commands to clone the repository:

1.Introduction to the Course

2.Go Language Basics

3.Go Language Essentials

4.Filesystem Interactions

5.Using Common Data Formats

6.Interacting with Remote Data Sources

Project

7.Writing Command-Line Tooling

8.Automating Command-Line Tasks

9.Observability with OpenTelemetry

10.Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions

11.Using ChatOps to Increase Efficiency

12.Creating Immutable Infrastructure Using Packer

13.Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

14.Deploying and Building Applications in Kubernetes

15.Programming the Cloud

16.Designing for Chaos

17.Appendix

18.Conclusion

Build and Trigger Our First GitHub Action

Creating and cloning a GitHub repository