GitHub Actions

In the previous section, we explored Azure Pipelines. Next, let us explore GitHub Actions. GitHub Actions is a CI/CD tool provided by GitHub. It is quite similar to Azure Pipelines. In this section, we will use GitHub Actions to build and test the application and push the Docker image to ACR.

Preparing the project

To demonstrate how to use GitHub Actions, we will use the same source code as we used in the previous section. You can download the source code from the GitHub repository here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Web-API-Development-with-ASP.NET-Core-8/tree/main/samples/chapter14/MyBasicWebApiDemo. Create a new GitHub repository and push the source code to the repository. The directory structure of the source code is as follows:

MyGitHubActionsDemo    ├── src
    │   └──MyBasicWebApiDemo
    ├── tests
 ...