GitHub Actions, integrated with GitHub, is a platform for automating, customizing, and running software development workflows, including building, testing, and deploying code directly in your GitHub repository.

GitHub Actions also offers pre-built actions. You will find community-contributed pre-built steps from the GitHub Marketplace, available for popular languages, tools, and frameworks.

In this hands-on guided project, you’ll add actions to a GitHub workflow to automate your software development process. You will use flake8 to lint your source code, ensuring that the code follows best practices and coding standards. Additionally, you’ll test your code coverage with nosetests and push the code to GitHub. Finally, run the workflow to watch the automation and verify that your code works correctly.

Completing this project can automate your software development process and improve your overall productivity.

A Look at the Project Ahead

After completing this project, you'll be able to:

Explain components of a job in a GitHub Actions workflow
Use predefined GitHub actions
Run multiline inline code in a step
Explore action logs in the GitHub UI

What You'll Need

For this project, you will need:

Completion of the previous lab, “Creating GitHub Workflows”
Familiarity with the basics of YAML
Familiarity with CLIs
A GitHub account

You’ll have access to a Cloud-based IDE that includes all of the required software pre-installed. All you need is a recent version of a modern web browser to complete this project.

Building Continuous Integration (CI) Pipelines

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