Hands-on – your first workflow

That should have been enough theory to get started. We'll dig deeper into runners, environments, and security in the following chapters. If you are new to GitHub Actions, now is the time to create your first workflow and your first action.

Tip

You can find existing GitHub Actions Workflows as templates by using GitHub's code search and filtering by the programming language's YAML (language:yml) and the workflow path (path:.github/workflows). The following search will return all the workflows for the German Corona-Warn-App:

language:yml path:.github/workflows @corona-warn-app

The steps are as follows:

1. Navigate to the repository by going to https://github.com/wulfland/getting-started and fork it by using the Fork button in the top-right corner.
2. In the fork, click on Actions. You should see templates for workflows that you can use. These templates are optimized for the code in the repository – in this...