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GitHub Actions review

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- [Instructor] GitHub Actions is an automation framework that integrates seamlessly with code stored in a GitHub repository. You can use Actions to automate many parts of the software development lifecycle including continuous integration and deployment. Just to make sure we're on the same page, let's review some keywords that you need to know. We'll start with the workflow. Workflows define how all of the automation in a process is tied together including how the process gets started. For a workflow to be recognized by GitHub Actions, it must be stored inside your repo in the .GitHub/workflows directory. Workflows are also coded using YAML syntax. Events are the triggers that start a workflow. Triggers can be just about anything that happens while you're using GitHub, pushes to a repo, new pull requests, new issues, and so on. Workflows can even be triggered by manual events in the web interface. Honestly…

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