Continous Deployment (CD) using GitHub Actions

Overview

Teaching: 1 min
Exercises: 1 min

Questions

• How do I deploy a service in production using a GitHub Action?

Objectives

• Show an example of deployment to GitHub Pages.

• Show an example of deployment to Firebase

• Show an example of deployment using a self-hosted runner

TODO:

• Deployment to GitHub Pages?
  • Fully static, Jekyll, Gatsby, Docusaurus…
• Deployment of full stack applications:
  • Develop Firebase with Turgay
  • ad-hoc on custom server
  • Show an example of deployment using a self-hosted runner?
  • Show an example of deployment to a popular service provider (Heroku, AWS)?

Key Points

• GitHub Pages is the best solution for static website (and its free).

• Be careful to not reach limitations set by the cloud provider you use.