Creating a Release with GitHub Actions

Your team has set up an automated build process for your application code. You want to store this artifact so other teams can access it for downstream work. You will need to build out the workflow file to leverage GitHub Packages to store new versions of your code with each new build.

Learning Objectives

Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:

Set up a GitHub Repository

Fork the repo https://github.com/linuxacademy/content-github-actions-deep-dive-lesson.
Check out the lab branch and confirm /github/workflows/deploy-pipeline.yaml contains lint and build jobs.
Note: You can clone the repo locally or work in the GitHub browser.
If you have trouble, the complete code for one possible solution is on the lab-package-solution.

Create a Release

Create a publish job.
Add a step to create a release and commit the changes.
Check the release in the GitHub console. It has the complete codebase, but not the build artifact with the dependencies.

Add a Release Asset

Set the publish job to run after the build job.
Add a step to the publish job to upload the build artifact as a part of the release and commit the changes.
Note: The new release will contain a zipped bundle with all the libraries.

Objectives

Set up a GitHub repository.

Create a release.

Add a release asset.

Links and Resources:

GitHub repository: https://github.com/linuxacademy/content-github-actions-deep-dive-lesson

GitHub Actions Checkout community action: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/checkout

Upload/download artifacts: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/guides/storing-workflow-data-as-artifacts

Using needs: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#jobsjob_idneeds

Step ids: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#jobsjob_idoutputs

Git tags: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Tagging

GitHub releases: https://docs.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository/releasing-projects-on-github/managing-releases-in-a-repository

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