Hello, GitHub Actions continent

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Welcome to Hello, GitHub Actions continent

The god of this planet wants your journey to be useful and pleasant one. However, it is still nice to give a proper thanks to this planet...

Your mission

• Learn about GitHub Actions
• Activity - Let's create your first GitHub Actions

Learn about GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions 101

GitHub Actions is a GitHub product that allows you to automate your workflows.

• Workflows stored as yml files
• Fully integrated with GitHub
• Respond to GitHub events
• Live logs and visualized workflow execution
• Community-powered workflows
• GitHub-hosted or self-hosted runners
• Built-in secret store

GitHub Actions Marketplace

• Discover open-source Actions across multiple domains
• ~10,000 Actions (and counting...)
• Verified creators
• Reference these Actions directly in your workflow
• Integrated into the GitHub editor

High level architecture of GitHub Actions

Basic syntax

# Defines the name
name: Super Linter Workflow

# Event that will get triggered. In this case, it gets triggered by push event
on:
  push:

# Different jobs can be defined
jobs:
  # Name of job
  lint:
     # Name of this job
     name: Lint Code Base

     # Type of runner. In this case, it is a default GitHub Actions runner
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest

     # You can define different steps
     steps:
        # First, checkout the code from the repo
        - uses: actions/checkout@v2
        # Uses the super-linter from GitHub Action plugin
        - uses: github/super-linter@v3
           env:
              # GitHub secret value can be used
              GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Let's create your first GitHub Actions

You need to create a GitHub Actions to say a proper greeting with a message:

Thank you for warm welcoming! My name is xxx
I will enjoy my time in this wonderful GitHub Actions planet!

To do this you need to do the following steps:

1. Copy the scripts below and save into your note
2. Create a branch named hello-username where username is your GitHub username
3. Go to .github/workflows directory and click Add file. Type in following format action-hello-username.yml where you will replace username with your own GitHub username. Save the file by commiting to the directory.
4. Make a Pull Request to the main branch
5. Somebody will approve the workflow.
6. You can then run your workflow

# Change this line with username with your GitHub username
name: Hello from @username

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
      inputs:
         myName:
            description: "Please type in your name"
            required: true
            default: ''

jobs:
   Hello-GitHub-Actions:
      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
      name: Just saying "hi"

      steps:
        - name: Hello, GitHub Actions planet
          run: |
             echo "Thank you for warm welcoming! My name is ${{ github.event.inputs.myName }}"
             echo "I will enjoy my time in this wonderful GitHub Actions planet!"

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