Create and run a GitHub Actions workflow.
Automation is key for streamlining your work processes, and GitHub Actions is the best way to supercharge your workflow.
- Who is this for: Developers, DevOps engineers, students, managers, teams, GitHub users.
- What you'll learn: How to create workflow files, trigger workflows, and find workflow logs.
- What you'll build: An Actions workflow that will check emoji shortcode references in Markdown files.
- Prerequisites: In this course you will work with issues and pull requests, as well as edit files. We recommend you take the Introduction to GitHub course first.
- How long: This course can be finished in less than two hours.
In this course, you will:
- Create a workflow
- Add a job
- Add a run step
- Merge your pull request
- See effect of the workflow
- Right-click Start course and open the link in a new tab.
- In the new tab, most of the prompts will automatically fill in for you.
- For owner, choose your personal account or an organization to host the repository.
- We recommend creating a public repository, as private repositories will use Actions minutes.
- Scroll down and click the Create repository button at the bottom of the form.
- After your new repository is created, wait about 20 seconds, then refresh the page. Follow the step-by-step instructions in the new repository's README.
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