Release Your Software with GitHub Actions
In this final chapter, we will dive into using GitHub Actions for continuous deployments (CDs). We will create a container with a simple website that uses the package from Chapter 6, Build and Validate Your Code, and we will deploy it to Kubernetes in the cloud, securing access with OpenID Connect (OIDC). We will use environments to secure the deployment and concurrency groups to control the flow of multiple workflows.
We will use Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in this chapter as the production environment, but I will point you to documentation to carry out the same recipes with other cloud providers such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Elastic Container Services (ECSs) on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
We’ll cover the following recipes:
- Building and publishing a container
- Using OIDC to securely deploy to any cloud
- Environment approval checks
- Releasing the container...
