learning-github-actions

This repository is a collection of GitHub Actions and workflows to demonstrate various features and capabilities of GitHub Actions. It includes examples of workflows, composite actions, Docker-based actions, and JavaScript-based actions.

Overview

The purpose of this repository is to provide a comprehensive guide to learning and using GitHub Actions. It contains several custom actions and workflows that showcase different use cases and functionalities.

Workflows

1. Build and deploy ASP.Net Core app to an Azure Web App

• File: .github/workflows/azure-webapps-dotnet-core.yml
• Description: This workflow builds and pushes a .NET Core app to an Azure Web App when a commit is pushed to your default branch.

2. Call Reusable Workflow

• File: .github/workflows/caller-greeting.yml
• Description: This workflow calls a reusable workflow to greet a specified user.

3. Close inactive issues

• File: .github/workflows/close-inactive-issues.yml
• Description: This workflow closes inactive issues after a specified period of inactivity.

4. Greeting Composite Workflow

• File: .github/workflows/composite-action.yml
• Description: This workflow uses a composite action to greet a specified user.

5. Conditional env variable

• File: .github/workflows/conditional-env.yml
• Description: This workflow demonstrates the use of conditional environment variables.

6. Using environments to manually trigger workflow jobs

• File: .github/workflows/dev-env.yml
• Description: This workflow demonstrates the use of environments to manually trigger workflow jobs.

7. Greeting Docker Workflow

• File: .github/workflows/docker-action.yml
• Description: This workflow uses a Docker-based action to greet a specified user.

8. Environment Variables

• File: .github/workflows/env-variables.yml
• Description: This workflow demonstrates the use of environment variables.

9. Viewing all properties of an event

• File: .github/workflows/event-properities.yml
• Description: This workflow prints all properties of an event to the console.

10. Add comment on an issue when "help wanted" label is added

• File: .github/workflows/issue-comment.yml
• Description: This workflow adds a comment to an issue when the "help wanted" label is added.

11. Greeting JavaScript Action

• File: .github/workflows/javascript-action.yml
• Description: This workflow uses a JavaScript-based action to greet a specified user.

12. Job Dependency

• File: .github/workflows/job-dependency.yml
• Description: This workflow demonstrates job dependencies.

13. Label issues

• File: .github/workflows/label-issues.yml
• Description: This workflow labels issues when they are opened or reopened.

14. Defining inputs for manually triggered workflow

• File: .github/workflows/manual-inputs.yml
• Description: This workflow defines inputs for manually triggered workflows.

15. Matrix Workflow Example

• File: .github/workflows/matrix.yml
• Description: This workflow demonstrates the use of a matrix strategy to run jobs on multiple operating systems and Node.js versions.

16. Reusable workflow example

• File: .github/workflows/reusable-greeting.yml
• Description: This workflow demonstrates the use of a reusable workflow to greet a specified user.

17. Run Bash Script

• File: .github/workflows/run-bash-script.yml
• Description: This workflow runs a Bash script.

18. Run PowerShell Script

• File: .github/workflows/run-powershell.yml
• Description: This workflow runs a PowerShell script.

19. Weekly Team Sync

• File: .github/workflows/schedule-issue-creation.yml
• Description: This workflow creates a weekly team sync issue.

20. Run using Self Hosted Runner

• File: .github/workflows/self-hosted-runner.yml
• Description: This workflow runs a job using a self-hosted runner.

21. Share data between jobs

• File: .github/workflows/upload-download-artifact.yml
• Description: This workflow demonstrates how to share data between jobs using artifacts.