Automate Your Deployments on Kubernetes with GitHub Actions and Argo GitOps
Mature DevOps needs automation. Skip the pain of inventing workflows and implement my real-world templates for build-test-deploy pipelines.
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Course overview
Rescue your team's confidence in production updates with workflows and GitOps
Raise your production success and lower your stress by empowering your team with self-service automations and deployment dashboards. You'll apply my Cloud Native DevOps automation design constructed from my years of successful implementations for multiple organizations.
This course is for:
01
DevOps engineers who want to automate their testing and deployment workflows with GitHub
02
Build engineers who struggle with moving off legacy CI/CD tools to GitHub Actions
03
Software engineers who are sick of the lack of automation and deployment status in their software lifecycle
What's in it for you?
Ship code faster and with greater visibility and reliability
Building, testing, and deploying your apps to Kubernetes should be easier! Discover how GitHub Actions and Argo CD can get your time back.
Advance your GitHub Actions experience and implement container lifecycle automation
You'll use real-world templates to start automated container builds, CVE scans, testing, linting, and more. Security best practices are also provided.
Discover how others are solving their DevOps and automation needs
With small group cohort-based learning, you can share and collaborate with other DevOps teams on workflow ideas and how they approach solving business problems with automation.
Customize the pieces in class to fit your requirements
You'll add my templates to your own GitHub repos to start seeing benefits immediately. Combine best-of-breed tools into a simple and low-maintenance design.
Achieve full control and awareness of your deployments with GitOps
Implement Argo CD for your own GitOps-based infrastructure-as-code design across multiple environments. Provide the team with the detailed deployment dashboard they've been looking for.
Course schedule
Total 12 hrs: 6 hrs/week for 2 weeks
Week 1, Mon & Wed
12:00pm - 2:00pm US ET (UTC-4)
Live workshops: slides, demos, and small group discussion.
Week 1, Fri
12:00pm - 2:00pm US ET (UTC-4)
Optional co-working workshop to customize what you're learning to fit your requirements.
Week 2, Mon & Wed
12:00pm - 2:00pm US ET (UTC-4)
Live workshops: slides, demos, and small group discussion.
Week 2, Fri
12:00pm - 2:00pm US ET (UTC-4)
Optional co-working workshop to customize what you're learning to fit your requirements.
Course syllabus
6 live sessions • 11 lessons • 6 projects
Week 1
- ✍️
#1: Setup your GitHub class org and repos
Submit by Jul 10 - 📄
GitHub Actions basics
- 📄
CI diagrams & GitHub Actions CI examples walkthrough
- 📄
CI examples repository
- ✍️
#2: Add a basic GHA workflow to our app
Submit by Jul 10 - 📄
Extra Credit: Understanding the Workflow file
- First, prep for class by watching the video in this module about why we want to use Reusable Workflows.
- Second, follow the project steps in this module for creating a new repo in your org to store these new workflows.
Jul
10
Workshop 1: GHA
Jul
12
Workshop 2: scale GHA
Jul
14
Q&A 1: implementing GHA
Course prep (homework before we start)
To save us time in class, I'd like you to do some basic GitHub setup and learn some basic GitHub Actions concepts. Please digest these resources, and finish the two projects before we start. We'll review in class.
If you already know GitHub Actions basics, you can skip the first video if you like. If you understand common CI workflows and how to implement them in GHA then you can also skip the second video.
Workshop 1: Add GitHub Actions to our sample apps
In class: We'll add a basic Docker build workflow, and iterate to make it super-fancy. We'll also add linting, learn some more advanced GitHub Actions features, and you'll get extra credit for after class.
Extra Credit: Practice more Actions
These optional activities build on the learnings of Workshop 1 and Workshop 2. They are not required but will expand and deepen your learning of GitHub Actions.
Prep for Workshop 2 (Do before Wednesday class)
Wednesday will mostly be about "Reusable Workflows" as a strategy for building out GitHub Actions (GHA) throughout your org, across what might be dozens or hundreds of repos and possibly many more workflows.
Migrate to reusable Docker build workflow
Now that we've had a workshop on how Reusable Workflows work, you'll need to migrate your repos to the more advanced Docker Build Reusable Workflow. Once finished, you can do any optional Extra Credit from Wednesday.
Workshop 2: Consolidate workflows to reusable repo
In class: Now that we're getting the idea of how to design workflows, let's create reusable workflows in a central repository, learn about inputs, and how to call workflows from different repositories. We'll then start adding more workflows to more repositories.
Week 2
Jul
17
Workshop 3: Argo CD setup
Jul
19
Workshop 4: app deploys on Argo CD
Jul
21
Q&A 2: implementing Argo CD
Workshop 3: Deploy Argo CD to Kubernetes
We'll learn about Argo CD setup architecture and configuration. You'll have homework after class Monday to deploy Argo CD to Kubernetes.
Workshop 4: Deploy Wordsmith using Argo CD
We'll point Argo CD to a new repository that describes our app deployment design and explore multiple ways to design our deployment workflows.
Extra Credit: Practice more Argo CD
These optional activities build on the learnings of Workshop 3 and Workshop 4. They are not required but will expand and deepen your learning of Argo CD and GitOps designs.
https://autodeploy.bretfisher.com/w3-extra
https://autodeploy.bretfisher.com/w4-extra
There are also some references to read for specific topics I think are worth looking at after covering the in-class content:
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Bret Fisher
Bret Fisher
Container pro. DevOps advisor.
Thanks for considering my course. I'm a DevOps, Docker, and Kubernetes trainer, consultant, speaker, and Open Source volunteer. For 25+ years I have built and operated distributed systems.
Since 2017, my courses, live workshops, and conference talks on containers and DevOps have reached more than 350,000 people worldwide. The first course I made was a Docker course on Udemy and it quickly grew to be #1 in the topic. In total, I've published four large courses, two of which continue to hold the position of Best Seller courses. Fun fact, even Docker, Inc. uses my Docker Mastery course to train their new-hires.
I'm also a practitioner. For the past 12 years, I have consulted and advised companies big and small, digging into DevOps projects and leading teams to "containerize" their apps and systems, improve their speed of deployment, resiliency, metrics, and awareness.
Efficiency and effectiveness are pet peeves of mine, so it makes sense that I love the scope of automating workflows. Much of my focus with organizations over the last five years has been automating their container pipelines.
I've come to understand it's not enough to simply learn a tool, it's necessary to learn how multiple tools work together. In all this time teaching containers, I find one of the hardest parts is understanding the end-to-end workflow for getting software out of developer hands and into production servers.
I see firsthand the positive impact on team performance and service reliability that an automated software lifecycle can have.
I'm a Docker Captain, which is a "distinction that Docker awards select members of the community who are both experts in their field and are passionate about sharing their Docker knowledge with others." It's definitely an honor to be a Captain; currently there are only 66 in the world. I am also a Digital Ocean Navigator and a Traefik Ambassador. And, because I'm an Eagle Scout, I like to leave any DevOps platform I find better than I found it (a Scout motto)🤚.
I also host a weekly YouTube Live show and a podcast with Cloud Native experts.
This evolution from speaker, consultant, and instructor of self-paced online courses to cohort workshops is an exciting one for me. The small, highly engaged format of training can be quite effective for many people and I hope it will be for you too.
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Questions? Ping me.
Twitter: @bretfisher
Email: bret@bretfisher.com
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