Learning GitHub Actions for DevOps CI/CD

Updated in May 2025. This course now 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. GitHub Actions automates software workflows via YAML files triggered by repository events, schedules, or manual inputs. This intensive course offers a comprehensive understanding of GitHub Actions, covering workflow components like events, jobs, steps, and runners. Learners will explore environment variables, secure password storage, manual approvals, and sharing values between steps and jobs. The course also includes using self-hosted runners and deploying an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) template with Bicep. Key skills such as building, pushing, and deploying Docker containers, and optimizing Azure web app performance are emphasized. Designed for cloud consultants, Azure IaaS and PaaS administrators, developers, and cloud enthusiasts, the course requires YAML syntax knowledge, basic command line skills, and Visual Studio Code. It focuses on practical examples and hands-on experience, enabling learners to automate workflows from concept to production.