4 Deploying with GitHub Actions

This chapter covers

Using a CI/CD pipeline
Configuring and using GitHub Actions
Enriching GitHub Actions workflows with secrets
Document-based automation with Ansible

When you first learn to drive a car, everything is new, so every step must be carefully considered. After a few months or years, you start driving without thinking about every little detail. I believe this is the natural state for all humans—we learn and focus intently until it becomes automatic and effortless. Software is much the same. Our built-in human need to remove attention from any given task translates to how we deploy our software into production.

4.1 Getting started with CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions

4.1.1 Your first GitHub Actions workflow

4.1.2 Creating your first GitHub Actions secret

4.1.3 Installing the public SSH key on Akamai Connected Cloud

4.1.4 Creating a new virtual machine on Akamai Linode

4.1.5 Installing NGINX on a remote server with a GitHub Actions workflow

4.2 Virtual machine automation with Ansible

4.2.1 GitHub Actions workflow for Ansible

4.2.2 Creating your first Ansible Playbook

4.2.3 Ansible for our Python app

4.2.4 Ansible for our Node.js app

4.3 Summary