Overview of GitHub Actions

In the world of CI/CD, there are numerous tools have been created to automate the process of building, testing, and deploying projects. GitHub Actions happens to be one of those tools and has greatly gained popularity.

GitHub Actions is a CI/CD platform that allows developers to automate the process of building, testing, and running deployment pipelines.

GitHub Actions became popular because it is directly integrated into GitHub and can be configured to create workflows that build and test every pull request to your repository or deploy merged pull requests to production.

There are tons of concepts to learn about GitHub Actions: the different terminologies, concepts, benefits, and advantages of using GitHub Actions over other CI/CD platforms. You can learn all this from the official documentation at https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/understanding-github-actions.

Nevertheless, we will show you how to create a deployment pipeline...