Building CI/CD using GitHub Actions

Now that we have discussed CI/CD and had a look at some of the capabilities provided by GitHub, let's have a look at using GitHub Actions to deploy an ASP.NET Core application. As we have forked the Packt master into our own repo in the previous section, Making a copy of the repo, we are ready to begin.

Our plan is to deploy an ASP.NET Core WASM application to GitHub Pages. We covered the sample WASM application in the previous chapter. The next section gives an overview of GitHub Pages.

What is GitHub Pages?

GitHub Pages is a convenient and powerful way to host a static website using all the power of GitHub, including global distribution, without worrying about hosting. In many cases, it is a convenient way to host a website with information about the repository it is associated with. But there is no reason why it cannot be used in other circumstances. For example, in Google or Bing, search build a blog in GitHub Pages as an example...