This course teaches learners how to enhance their SAP developer and devops skills using GitHub Actions. By the end of the course, students will be able to understand GitHub Actions terminology, create workflows, utilize shared secrets and runners, incorporate actions into workflow job steps, and access the API surface effectively. The teaching method involves a step-by-step exploration of GitHub Actions through examples, terminology explanations, workflow demonstrations, and practical exercises. This course is intended for SAP developers and devops professionals looking to leverage GitHub Actions in their projects.
Overview
Syllabus
Welcome and introduction
Examples of GitHub Actions use in our context
GitHub Actions terminology actions, workflows, jobs, steps, runners
Exploring the image-build-and-publish.yml workflow
Looking at GitHub org-level features shared secrets and runners
Creating the simplest workflow that could possibly work
Brief overview of what and where actions are and what they can do
Expanding on the simple workflow - adding an input
Getting the workflow to run on a self-hosted runner
Bring in the use of an action into a workflow job step
Creating issues to see that the action successfully added comments to them
Looking in depth at the "url-notes" repo and associated workflow
Highlighting the github-script action for powerful access to the API surface
Taught by
SAP Developers
