DevOps - GitHub Actions

Example of complete CI/CD pipeline

https://github.blog/2022-02-02-build-ci-cd-pipeline-github-actions-four-steps/

https://posthog.com/blog/automating-a-software-company-with-github-actions

Advanced

• caching
• concurrency and cancelling jobs
• matrix
• own container images

https://yonatankra.com/7-github-actions-tricks-i-wish-i-knew-before-i-started/

Security / vulnerabilities

https://johnstawinski.com/2024/01/11/playing-with-fire-how-we-executed-a-critical-supply-chain-attack-on-pytorch

GOTCHAS, good to know

https://fusectore.dev/2022/09/25/github-actions-pitfalls.html

https://blog.yossarian.net/2023/09/22/GitHub-Actions-could-be-so-much-better

Auto-scaled workers in AWS

https://github.com/philips-labs/terraform-aws-github-runner#major-configuration-options

GitHub Actions on-prem limitations

https://www.cbui.dev/github-actions-limitations-and-gotchas/

Debugging GitHub Actions

• with tmate, allows to SSH or WebShell into VM

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/debugging-with-tmate

Tools - Test locally

https://github.com/nektos/act