CI CD Systems

References

GitHub Actions

• As a native feature of GitHub, it provides very good integration with GitHub, from example raising PRs and labelling issues from GitHub Actions is trivial.
• Has good community and ecosystem around sharable/composable GitHub Actions(technically similar to CircleCI Orbs), from installing Ruby and building Docker images to deploying to AWS Services.
  • These actions let use write CI/CD pipelines without the need to write shell scripts.
• AWS Integration is achieved through 1st-party GitHub Actions provided by AWS.
• Writing our own GitHub Actions is easy and intuitive, they can be written in Javascript or in any language using their Docker-backed-actions feature.
  • Creating actions
  • Create and publish custom GitHub actions
  • Building Your First GitHub Action

Links

• Create a CI/CD pipeline for Amazon ECS with GitHub Actions and AWS CodeBuild Tests
• Github Actions with Ruby on Rails
• Git Tag Based Released Process Using GitHub Actions

Approvals Worflows in GitHub Actions

• Using ENVIRONMENTS for approval workflows with GitHub Actions
• GitHub Actions now with Manual Approvals
• Adding approval workflow to your GitHub Action
• AUTOMATE YOUR CI/CD PIPELINE USING GITHUB ACTIONS
• Reviewing deployments

Useful GitHub Actions

• GitHub Action to login against a Docker registry
  • And many other Docker related GitHub Actions.
  • Publishing Docker images
• GitHub Action to write a script in your workflow that uses the GitHub API and the workflow run context
• Useful starter GitHub Actions workflows
• GitHub Action to download a prebuilt Ruby
• GitHub Action to automatically bump and tag master, on merge, with the latest SemVer formatted version.
• GitHub Action Release Drafter

AWS Integration

• AWS GitHub Actions

AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline

• A repository hosting service and CI/CD system that is well integrated with AWS tools and services.
• Getting used to this service, might help developers to get more comfortable with AWS Services.

Links

• Create a CI/CD pipeline for Amazon ECS with GitHub Actions and AWS CodeBuild Tests

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Where we use these tools

GitHub-based workflows

• For certain workflows like Dependabot and Ruby Upgrade use GitHub actions.