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GitHub Actions and CI/CD Course

Build a secure GitHub Actions pipeline for tests, artifacts, releases, protected deployments, rollback, and ongoing operations.

5 modules · 25 lessons · No signup

Prerequisites: Git and Testing JavaScript Applications

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What you'll learn

Build and threat-model a pipeline that tests a pull request, creates one artifact, deploys through a protected environment, and rolls back safely.

Course contents

  1. Workflow foundations

    Map events, jobs, steps, runners, contexts, and reproducible commands.

    1. ✓ Map events, workflows, jobs, and steps
    2. ✓ Choose triggers carefully
    3. ✓ Run reproducible steps
    4. ✓ Read contexts and expressions
    5. ✓ Check your understanding: workflow foundations

  2. Test, build, and share data

    Design job graphs, matrices, caches, artifacts, and failure evidence.

    1. ✓ Design the job graph
    2. ✓ Use a purposeful matrix
    3. ✓ Separate caches from artifacts
    4. ✓ Preserve failure evidence
    5. ✓ Check your understanding: test, build, and share data

  3. Secure the pipeline

    Minimize token permissions and protect secrets, forks, inputs, and action dependencies.

    1. ✓ Minimize token permissions
    2. ✓ Handle untrusted input and forks
    3. ✓ Protect secrets and cloud access
    4. ✓ Pin and review actions
    5. ✓ Check your understanding: secure the pipeline

  4. Reuse, release, and deploy

    Reuse stable policy, control concurrency, promote artifacts, and protect environments.

    1. ✓ Choose the right reuse boundary
    2. ✓ Control concurrency
    3. ✓ Build a release from one artifact
    4. ✓ Use protected environments and rollback
    5. ✓ Check your understanding: reuse, release, and deploy

  5. Operate and improve CI/CD

    Make failures actionable, control flakiness and cost, and rehearse recovery.

    1. ✓ Make failures actionable
    2. ✓ Treat flaky tests as defects
    3. ✓ Control minutes, storage, and runners
    4. ✓ Finish the pipeline review
    5. ✓ Check your understanding: operate and improve ci/cd