December 19th, 2019
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Intro to GitHub Actions

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In this post, Sr. App Dev ManagerĀ Jason Giordano shows us how to use GitHub Actions to create a very simple CI/CD solution.


GitHub actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows. You can join through the link provide here: https://github.com/features/actions. The general availability date was November 13, 2019. To get ready for GitHub Actions, I have created a very simple application to demonstrate the basics. When you are ready to expand your solution, refer to the documentation here: https://help.github.com/en/github/automating-your-workflow-with-github-actions/about-github-actions

Prerequisites for this walkthrough:

DotNet Core (2.2): https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core

Git: https://git-scm.com/downloads

GitHub Desktop: https://desktop.github.com/

To get started:

Open a Command Prompt and enter:

dotnet new console -o "Blog"