Build and Trigger Our First GitHub Action

Learn how to build a GitHub Action by creating a workflow.

We'll cover the following

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:

Create a repo
Cloning a repository

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:

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Introduction to the Course

Go Language Basics

Go Language Essentials

Filesystem Interactions

Using Common Data Formats

Interacting with Remote Data Sources

Writing Command-Line Tooling

Automating Command-Line Tasks

Observability with OpenTelemetry

Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions

Using ChatOps to Increase Efficiency

Creating Immutable Infrastructure Using Packer

Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

Deploying and Building Applications in Kubernetes

Programming the Cloud

Designing for Chaos

Appendix

Conclusion

Build and Trigger Our First GitHub Action

Creating and cloning a GitHub repository