🚀 Workflow syntax

Demo repository for basic GitHub Actions workflow syntax.

❗ This is a template repository

• Please click Use this template to clone the repo into your user account or a different organization that you own, and run the demo from there
• If you're unable to use your personal account or a different organization, feel free to use this one. Just make sure to complete the Cleanup steps afterwards 🏡

Usage

Creating a workflow

1. Click on the Actions tab
2. If there are already existing workflows, click New workflow to navigate to the Starter workflow overview
3. Select the Simple workflow
4. Walk through the syntax (events, jobs, runner, steps, ...)
5. Give the workflow a distinct file name and workflow name
6. Commit the workflow into a new branch and create the PR

Workflow logs and other features

1. Observe the PR view which should show the workflow triggering (as long as the pull_request event was not removed from the workflow)
2. Show the Checks tab inside the PR, which should show the workflow log
3. Once the workflow has completed, merge the PR and delete the branch
4. Click on the Actions tab and click on the current workflow run
5. Show the features and information available in the workflow run GUI
   • Visualization, re-running workflows, downloading logs, searching, toggling time stamps, etc.
   • In the log, expand the Set up job --> Virtual environment, and navigate to the Included software link to show the VM spec of the runner
6. Show how to trigger the workflow manually (available as long as the workflow_dispatch event was not removed from the workflow)
7. Show how to disable the workflow

🏡 Cleanup

1. If the workflow was run in this repository, perform the following steps:
   • Ensure PRs are closed/merged
   • Ensure any new branches are deleted
   • Delete the workflow and commit to the main branch