GitHub Actions Tutorial - Basic Concepts and CI-CD Pipeline with Docker

This tutorial explains GitHub Actions for automating developer workflows, focusing on CI/CD concepts, workflow syntax, events, actions, and runners. A hands-on demonstration builds a Java Gradle project into a Docker image and pushes it to Docker Hub.

Syllabus

- Intro.
- What is Github Actions?.
- What are developer workflows? Use Cases for GitHub Actions.
- Basic Concepts of GitHub Actions: How GitHub Actions automates those workflows? GitHub Events & Actions.
- GitHub Actions CI/CD.
- Why another CI/CD Tool - Benefits of Github Actions.
- DEMO - Create CI Workflow or Pipeline.
- Syntax of Workflow File.
- Where does this Workflow Code run? GitHub Action Runner.
- Build Docker Image and push to private Docker Repo.