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Continuous Deployment for infrastructure as code

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Continuous Deployment for infrastructure as code

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- [Instructor] In this lesson, we'll learn how to create job summaries while running a CI/CD workflow for a project using infrastructure as code. As we develop more complex workflows, it may become difficult to locate details by searching through jobs, steps, and the logs they contain. To overcome this, GitHub allows each step in a workflow to send text to the actions interface using a variable called GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY. GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY is a variable that contains a path to a file where each step can store text. If the file contains any text at the end of a step's run, the text is written to the workflow summary and styled as GitHub-flavored Markdown. Along with Markdown, we can also use emojis to add extra flair to the step summary. For example, we can have a job that runs a series of steps and then uses one step to report the final results. The results can be appended to the summary by redirecting content to…

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