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GitHub Actions Cert Prep by Microsoft Press

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Overview

Prepare for the certification exam for GitHub Actions.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Introduction
1. Trigger Custom Workflows
  • Learning objectives
  • Configure workflows to run for one or more events
  • Configure workflows to run for scheduled events
  • Configure workflows to run for manual events
  • Configure workflows to run for webhook events
  • Demonstrate a GitHub event to trigger a workflow based on a practical use case
2. Utilize Workflow Components
  • Learning objectives
  • Identify the correct syntax for workflow jobs
  • Use job steps for actions and shell commands
  • Use conditional keywords for steps
  • Describe how actions, workflows, jobs, steps, runs, and the marketplace work together
  • Identify scenarios suited for using GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners
  • Implement workflow commands as a run step to communicate with the runner
  • Demonstrate the use of dependent jobs
3. Secure Workflow Data
  • Learning objectives
  • Use encrypted secrets to store sensitive information
  • Identify the available default environment variables during the construction of the workflow
  • Identify the location to set custom environment variables in a workflow
  • Identify when to use the github_token secret
  • Demonstrate how to use workflow commands to set environment variables
4. Craft Purposeful Workflows
  • Learning objectives
  • Add a script to a workflow
  • Demonstrate how to publish to GitHub Packages using a workflow
  • Demonstrate how to publish to GitHub container registry using a workflow
  • Use database and service containers in a GitHub actions workflow
  • Use labels to route workflows to specific runners
  • Use codeql as a step in a workflow
  • Demonstrate how to publish a component as a GitHub release using GitHub actions
  • Deploy a release to a cloud provider using a GitHub actions workflow
5. Optimize Workflow Runs
  • Learning objectives
  • Configure caching of workflow dependencies
  • Identify steps to pass data between jobs in a workflow
  • Remove workflow artifacts from GitHub
  • Add a workflow status badge
  • Add environment protections
  • Define a matrix of different job configurations
  • Implement workflow approval gates
6. Analyze Workflow Effects
  • Learning objectives
  • Identify the event that triggered a workflow from its effects in a repository, issue, or pull request
  • Describe a workflow's effects from reading its configuration file
  • Diagnose a failed workflow run
  • Identify ways to access the workflow logs from the user interface
  • Identify ways to access the workflow logs from the REST API in GitHub
  • Enable step debug logging in a workflow
  • Demonstrate how to use default environment variables in a workflow
  • Demonstrate the correct syntax for passing custom environment variables in a workflow step
7. Navigate Workflow Assets
  • Learning objectives
  • Describe where to locate a workflow in a repository
  • Explain the difference between disabling and deleting a workflows
  • Demonstrate how to download workflow artifacts from the user interface
  • Describe how to use an organization's templated workflow
8. Employ Trustworthy Actions
  • Learning objectives
  • Define the indicators of what makes a trustworthy action
  • Identify an action's type, inputs, and outputs
  • Demonstrate how to use the specific version of an action in a workflow
9. Select Action Types
  • Learning objectives
  • Identify the type of action required for a given problem
  • Demonstrate how to troubleshoot javascript and docker container actions
10. Detail Action Components
  • Learning objectives
  • Identify the files and directory structure needed to create an action
  • Identify the metadata and syntax needed to create an action
  • Implement workflow commands within an action to communicate with the runner, including exit codes
11. Distribute Custom Actions
  • Learning objectives
  • Identify how to select an appropriate distribution model for an action
  • Identify the best practices for distributing custom actions
  • Demonstrate how to create a release strategy for an action
  • Demonstrate how to publish an action to the GitHub marketplace
12. Propagate Enterprise Actions
  • Learning objectives
  • Explain reuse templates for actions and workflows
  • Define an approach for managing and leveraging reusable components
  • Define how to distribute actions for an enterprise
  • Define how to control access to actions within the enterprise
  • Configure organizational use policies for GitHub actions
13. Administer Enterprise Runners
  • Learning objectives
  • Describe the effects of configuring IP allow lists on GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners
  • Describe how to select appropriate runners to support workloads
  • Explain the difference between GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners
  • Configure self-hosted runners for enterprise use
  • Demonstrate how to manage self-hosted runners using groups
  • Demonstrate how to monitor, troubleshoot, and update self-hosted runners
14. Guard Enterprise Secrets
  • Learning objectives
  • Identify the scope of encrypted secrets
  • Demonstrate how to access encrypted secrets within actions and workflows
  • Explain how to manage organization-level encrypted secrets
  • Explain how to manage repository-level encrypted secrets
Summary
  • Summary

Taught by

Microsoft Press and Tim Warner

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