In this talk we will learn how to use GitHub Actions to define the steps of your CI/CD process as containers. Additionally, we will use a tool called "act" to validate the CI/CD workflow by running the containers locally for fast feedback.

1. GitHub Actions

2. Casey Lee
Director of Engineering

3. What are GitHub Actions?

6. ● Workflows are initiated by events
● Resolve a set of actions

7. ● Actions run a container
● Can depend on other actions
● Can have env variables
and secrets

8. How is this different?
100% containers!

9. https://developer.github.com/actions/creating-workflows/workflow-configuration-options/#using-a-dockerfile-image-in-an-action
More than just prebuilt images:

10. Curated actions:
sdras/actions

11. Docker repo URL

12. Local directory

14. GitHub slug

17. How do you develop actions?

18. Think globally, act locally!
nektos/act

20. DEMO TIME!
nektos/act

21. QUESTIONS?

22. cplee/github-actions-demo - Sample app to demo GitHub actions
nektos/act - Tool to run GitHub actions locally
actions - “Official” GitHub actions
sdras/actions - Community curated actions
The Life of a GitHub Action - Blog by Jessie Frazelle on GitHub Actions
Resources