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1. Quickstart Walkthrough

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Quickstart for GitHub Actions

Setup

Create .github/workflows/001-first-action.yml and copy in the following code.
commit the changes to your repo.
Visit the GitHub Actions Dashboard to see actions associated with this repo
You should see GitHub Actions Demo as one of the workflows
- Click to see history of runs for this workflow (should be 1 = first run)
- History should show 001-first-action.yml as source file - click to see code

name: GitHub Actions Demo
run-name: ${{ github.actor }} is testing out GitHub Actions 🚀
on: [push]
jobs:
  Explore-GitHub-Actions:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - run: echo "🎉 The job was automatically triggered by a ${{ github.event_name }} event."
      - run: echo "🐧 This job is now running on a ${{ runner.os }} server hosted by GitHub!"
      - run: echo "🔎 The name of your branch is ${{ github.ref }} and your repository is ${{ github.repository }}."
      - name: Check out repository code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - run: echo "💡 The ${{ github.repository }} repository has been cloned to the runner."
      - run: echo "🖥️ The workflow is now ready to test your code on the runner."
      - name: List files in the repository
        run: |
          ls ${{ github.workspace }}
      - run: echo "🍏 This job's status is ${{ job.status }}."

Experiments

Action	Outcome
Try changing the 'name` in the actions workflow YAML file to "001 - First Actions Example" - what happens?	The Actions dashboard should show the updated name for that flow.
Go to the specific workflow page in GitHub Actions dashboard and click "Disable workflow" as shown, then commit changes.

Setup
Experiments