GitHub Actions 101: Creating Your First Workflow

Beginner Series to Automating your Workflow with GitHub Actions! Part 1: Introduction + Creating 1st Workflow

As technology constantly evolves, developers are seeking new ways to have more efficient development workflows. GitHub Actions allows developers to automate, customize, and execute their software development workflows from the repository itself. Hence, it is easy to integrate CI/CD, perform tests and customize any workflow using GitHub Actions.

In this series, let’s walk through everything you need to know about GitHub Actions, from the basics to creating your own customized workflow.

At the end of the series, you will be able to:

• Understand how GitHub Action works
• Create your first action
• Create your first workflow
• More about actions and workflows
• Develop a basic CI/CD workflow

Prerequisites

Before we get started, these following prerequisites are recommended to follow along:

• Basic understanding of GitHub (create repo, push/pull/commit, pull requests, etc.)
• Basic knowledge of YAML