Github Actions Sample Repo

Added quickstart action yamls to start github actions

How to use

1. Make workflows directory under .github
2. Move the workflow yml from .github/archives to .github/workflows
3. Commit and push
4. Check github actions for pipeline.

Github Workflows

1. first_workflow: workflow_1.yml

   • workflow
   • jobs
   • steps

2. second_workflow: workflow_2.yml

   • clone the repo
   • read repo files
   • install and run a program (cowsay)

3. third_workflow: workflow_3.yml

   • run multiple jobs
   • run jobs in parallel
     
   • job skip if dependent job fails
     

4. fourth_workflow: workflow_4.yml

   • sharing artifacts among jobs
     

5. fifth_workflow: workflow_5.yml

   • using variables and secrets
     

6. sixth_workflow: workflow_6.yml

   • workflow trigger options
     • event filters
     • activity types
   • all-available-options

7. seventh_workflow: workflow_7.yml

   • job concurrency
   • configure job timeouts

8. eighth_workflow: workflow_8.yml

   • matrix configuration
     • include
     • exclude
     • fail-fast
     • max-parallel

9. ninth_workflow: workflow_9.yml

   • workflow contexts
   • all-available-contexts

10. tenth_workflow: workflow_10.yml

    • if expression

11. eleventh_workflow: workflow_11.yml

    • if expression - status check functions
      • success()
      • failure()
      • always()
      • cancelled()

12. twelth_workflow: workflow_12.yml

    • replace tokens / placeholders
    • create dynamic environment variables - GITHUB_ENV
    • set output to be used by another job - GITHUB_OUTPUT

Manually skip CICD

To skip ci

## Add any message as commit message
[skip ci]
[ci skip]
[no ci]
[skip actions]
[actions skip]

## Add message as well with skip ci
commit-message


skip-checks:true
## or
skip-checks: true

• Commit message command to be used

git commit --cleanup=verbatim --message '''
This is my commit message


skip-checks:true
'''