I made a GitHub Actions ebook, its totally free, would love your feedback!

Samir Marin — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 21:12:39 +0000

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working in cloud, infrastructure, DevOps, and platform engineering for a while and I finally put together something I’ve always dreamed of creating: an ebook.

This is something I wish I had when I started working with GitHub Actions and CI/CD.

🆓 Free GitHub Actions Ebook → GitHub Actions by Example

The goal was to make it example-based — everything in here is backed by real-world, working examples.

The guide helps you go from “not quite sure what this workflow YAML is doing” to “I can build this myself.”

💡 What’s Inside:

Creating your first workflow from scratch
Running tests on push and pull request
Building a service and the workflow to deploy it
Setting up reusable workflows
Writing your own composite and JavaScript actions

I wanted to make CI/CD less intimidating and honestly more fun.

Because I genuinely love this stuff, and I believe you could do this today, even if you’re a beginner.

🙏 Would love your feedback:

Anything unclear?
Something you'd want added?
Did it help you solve a real problem?

I’m planning to keep improving this guide so if you check it out, I’d love to hear what you think.

Thanks for reading!

DEV Community: Samir Marin

I made a GitHub Actions ebook, its totally free, would love your feedback!