Automate your workflow with GitHub Actions (GH-200)

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Duration: 1 day
Language: English
Level: Foundation

Learn how GitHub Actions enables you to automate your software development cycle. You'll learn how to plan automation of your software development life cycle with GitHub Actions workflows, use GitHub Actions to automatically build an application, and use GitHub Script to interact with the GitHub API.

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Course Benefits

Streamline DevOps with end-to-end automation
Learn to build CI/CD pipelines from code commit to production deployment using GitHub Actions.
Enhance workflow efficiency and maintainability
Use reusable workflows, composite actions, and secrets management best practices.
Expand deployment coverage
Deploy across multiple platforms (Azure, AWS, DockerHub) with advanced deployment strategies.
Strengthen security and compliance
Implement encrypted secrets, environment protections, and enterprise governance.
Scale GitHub Actions at the organizational level
Administer self-hosted runners, policies, and workflows across teams.

Prerequisites

Basic GitHub usage: creating repositories, branches, pull requests, and issue management
Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and YAML syntax is helpful but not required

Exam Information

Learn more, GitHub Actions - Certifications | Microsoft Learn

Automate with GitHub Actions Workshop Course Outline

Learning Objectives

Fundamentals of GitHub Actions

What Actions are and workflow automation basics
Understanding workflow YAML, events, jobs, and steps

Building and Running Workflows

Create workflows triggered on push, pull request, schedule, webhooks
Use GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners

Secure Workflows with Secrets and Context

Manage encrypted secrets and environment variables
Apply environment protections and approval gates

Reusable Workflows & Composite Actions

Build composite actions and reusable workflows
Implement DRY principles for automation

Continuous Integration (CI)

Automate build and testing pipelines
Integrate external tools (lint, test, quality gates)
Implement matrix builds

Continuous Deployment (CD)

Deploy to Azure, AWS, DockerHub
Use strategies like canary, blue/green deployments
Monitor, roll back, and track status

Publishing & Custom Actions

Publish code or Docker images to GitHub Packages
Create, document, version, and publish custom Actions

Enterprise Management of GitHub Actions

Manage enterprise-level features, runners, and encrypted secrets
Scale workflows and enforce organization-wide policies

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Automate with GitHub Actions Workshop FAQs

This course is intended for students who want to use GitHub to help developers and DevOps engineers build and deploy applications quickly. Additionally, students will discover which GitHub Actions features are available for their enterprise instance and learn how to use them.

This intermediate-level course is ideal for DevOps engineers, administrators, software developers, and tech leads implementing GitHub Actions at scale.

Basic familiarity with GitHub workflows and triggers is beneficial. No prior GitHub Actions experience is required—but understanding commits, branches, and pull requests helps.

The course covers automated deployments using GitHub Actions to platforms like Azure, AWS, DockerHub, as well as publishing via GitHub Packages.

You'll learn to manage secrets, environment protections, approval gates, and enterprise-level controls for secure automation.

Yes. GH-200 corresponds to the Microsoft/GitHub certification for GitHub Actions, and prepares learners with intermediate-level skills.

Automate your workflow with GitHub Actions (GH-200)

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