GitHub Actions Masterclass: From Beginner to Advanced

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Master GitHub Actions from the ground up in this comprehensive masterclass! Whether you’re just starting or aiming to deepen your expertise, this course will take you step-by-step through GitHub Actions concepts. You'll learn to automate workflows, handle triggers, manage inputs/outputs, and develop custom actions, equipping you with all the tools to build advanced CI/CD pipelines. By the end of this course, you'll be adept at optimizing and securing workflows and managing concurrent processes seamlessly. This course follows a structured approach: beginning with setting up your environment and GitHub repository, you’ll dive into the fundamentals of workflows, triggers, and runner environments. You will then explore advanced features like expressions, event filters, caching, artifacts, and matrices. Along the way, hands-on exercises and solutions will reinforce key concepts, and you will tackle real-world scenarios with increasing complexity. In the latter part of the course, you’ll build custom GitHub Actions, create reusable workflows, handle concurrency, and secure your workflows to ensure they’re safe from vulnerabilities. By the course’s end, you'll have a robust understanding of GitHub Actions, ready to integrate these automated workflows into real-world projects and teams. This course is perfect for developers, DevOps engineers, or anyone looking to master GitHub Actions for CI/CD automation. No prior experience with GitHub Actions is required, but familiarity with GitHub and basic programming concepts will be helpful.