Automagic Deployment with Github Actions

8/16/2022

Abstract:

Remote talk for UCTech 2022 at UCSD.

Deploying can be a huge hassle for any application and any team. We’ve tried a bunch of ways to get it right, scripts, chatbots, tags, and manual pushes. We never found a one size fits all solution until we moved to Github Actions. By standardizing on the concept of a workflow, but being flexible about how any specific app was setup we were able to move to a state of one click amazing so anyone on our team can deploy.

In this sessions we’ll talk about:

What is Github Actions?
How to setup different deploy scenarios with different requirements
Triggering deploys manually
Using the Github API to trigger deploys with a Chatbot

No one wants to be left holding the Ham of Shame for a deploy gone wrong. Automating tedious tasks with multiple steps builds psychological safety and avoids finger pointing disasters.

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