Create Advanced GitHub Actions Talk

[mickeygousset]

• Create Slide Deck

Demos

• Demo 1 - MVC Deployment Demo With Enhancements

  • Get existing demo from intro talk working
  • Create reusable workflow for build and test (or maybe deploy) - This has actually been moved to a separate demo step.
  • Add verification of issue action to verify linked to an issue - separate workflow (could use this to make things fail vs hard coding)
  • Add lightbulb status for build status
  • Document demo steps
  • MAYBE: Concurrency, but maybe do this as a separate demo
  • GH CLI here with workflows
    • disable/enable
    • watch runs
  • CodeQL Code Scanning

• Demo 2 - Same as Demo 1, but with reusable workflow and composite Action

  • reusable workflow for deployment
  • Composite action for build/test/publish that can be used in multiple workflows
  • Document Demo Steps

• Demo 3 - Custom Actions

  • Composite Action - Dad Joke
  • Container Action - Dad Joke
  • Javascript Action - Dad Joke
  • Triggering the Dad Joke using an issue
  • Document demo steps

• Demo 4 - SonarCloud Example of Issue Ops

  • Build workflows that uses SonarQube
  • Build workflow for creating sonar key
  • Modify to use issue form
  • Document demo steps

• Demo 5 - Debugging Workflows

  • DEBUG variables: ACTIONS_RUNNER_DEBUG, ACTIONS_STEP_DEBUG
  • github.com/nektos/act
  • Document demo steps

• Demo 6 - Deploy a specific build

  • Create build workflow of MVC
  • Use Ben's Download Build Artifact action to be able to deploy a specific build
  • Use issueops for this. Create an issue with the build value in it, and that is used to start the release
  • Or use Pull Request Ops for this. I'll have to decide which.
  • Document demo steps

[mickeygousset]

GH commands:

gh workflow list --all

gh workflow enable WORKFLOWID

gh run list

gh run watch RUNID

[mickeygousset]

A conditional statement is being used in the first demo, so that may be good enough to not have a second demo around it.

[mickeygousset]

https://github.com/hattan/verify-linked-issue-action - this action can be used to verify the pull request references a work item

[mickeygousset]

remvoed specific gh CLI demo, because I'm using it in other demos