Automate your DevOps pipelines with GitHub Actions

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. In this course, you will dive into GitHub Actions to automate your DevOps workflows, improving efficiency and streamlining development processes. You’ll explore essential tools for building, deploying, and managing cloud-based applications, containers, and infrastructure, allowing you to automate complex tasks with ease. Whether you’re a developer or IT professional, this course equips you with the skills to build custom workflows and CI/CD pipelines. Starting with the basics, you will create your first GitHub Actions workflow and then gradually move towards more complex automations. You will learn how to integrate GitHub Actions with tools like Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform, allowing you to automate everything from building and deploying .NET applications to setting up self-hosted runners for complete control over your pipelines. The course covers security best practices, reusable workflows, and even adding documentation checks to your pipelines, ensuring a robust development lifecycle. This course is ideal for developers, DevOps engineers, and IT professionals who want to automate repetitive tasks and streamline their DevOps pipelines using GitHub Actions. You should have a basic understanding of GitHub and development workflows. The course is designed for intermediate learners but can also be followed by those with a fundamental knowledge of DevOps tools. By the end of the course, you will be able to create, configure, and optimize GitHub Actions workflows for a range of tasks, deploy applications to Azure and Kubernetes, integrate security checks, and automate complex DevOps pipelines with minimal effort.