GH-200: Automate your workflow with GitHub Actions

To take this course, participants must have previously taken the “GH-900: GitHub Fundations” course, or have an equivalent level.

Automate development tasks using GitHub Actions

• Describe GitHub actions, the types of actions, and where to find them.
• Plan to automate your software development lifecycle with GitHub Actions workflows.
• Create a container action and run it in a workflow triggered by a push event to your GitHub repository.

Create continuous integration workflows using GitHub actions

• Learn the essential features and techniques for creating robust and dynamic workflows.
• Create and test a Node.js project using GitHub Actions and a workflow template.
• Debug a failed test using GitHub Actions logs.
• Customize your workflow using GitHub Actions.

Build and deploy apps to Azure using GitHub actions

• Learn about the options for triggering a continuous delivery GitHub workflow.
• Understand the steps to remove artifacts from the workflow.
• Identify important environmental protections.
• Control the execution of the workflow with working conditions.
• Deploy to Microsoft Azure with a GitHub deployment action.
• Store credentials with GitHub Secrets.
• Create and destroy Azure resources with GitHub Actions workflows.

Automate GitHub using GitHub Script

• Use GitHub Script in your workflow.
• Comment on issues using Octokit.
• Add issues to a project board using Octokit.
• Use workflow expression syntax to filter when tasks run in a workflow.

Leverage GitHub actions to publish to GitHub packages

• Understand what a package repository is and when to use it.
• Set up a continuous integration (CI) workflow with GitHub actions to publish to GitHub packages.
• Validate your knowledge with an exercise that verifies your ability to publish to a GitHub package registry.
• Identify how to authenticate, install, and manage GitHub packages.

Create and publish custom GitHub actions

• Identify the metadata and syntax needed to create custom GitHub actions.
• Learn best practices for publishing a private or public GitHub action.
• Consume actions in a workflow file.
• Create custom actions based on JavaScript.
• Publish a newly created action to the GitHub Marketplace.

Manage GitHub actions in the enterprise

• Identify the different tools you can use at the company and organization level to manage your actions and workflows.
• Evaluate which riders are suitable for your business case.
• Learn about the different configurations available for self-hosted runners and customize them to your business use case.
• Understand what encrypted secrets are and how to use them in your actions and workflows.

Published on 07/21/2025

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