Building better platforms with Azure, GitHub, Terraform and AI
The blog post details the integration of GitHub CLI with GitHub Actions to automate project management. It explains how to move newly opened issues to a project board’s “ToDo” column via a custom workflow, highlighting the CLI’s customisation options and advantages over built-in workflows. Future posts will explore further automation possibilities.
Last week, I had the incredible opportunity to attend GitHub Universe in San Francisco, and what an experience it was! This blog post will share some key insights and highlights from the event. There’s so much to cover. I’ll only scratch the surface. 🙂 GitHub Universe In 2024, it would not be a conference if … Read more
Learn how to set up dynamic matrices in GitHub Actions to run jobs multiple times based on specific criteria
Developers and architects are more often than ever wanting to build AI-powered tools that can assist them with their development journey, but finding time and resources can be a challenge. This is where AEP (AI Enhanced Platform) steps in, offering a platform that includes ready-to-use Generative AI workflows along with a flexible framework to help … Read more
When managing a GitHub Pull Request (PR) workflow, numerous continuous integration (CI) checks typically run to ensure code quality, functionality, and compliance with project standards. Keeping track of these checks and providing timely, consistent feedback to contributors can be challenging. In this blog post, I’ll show how to enhance your PR process by adding automated … Read more
Within your GitHub Actions, you may be running a lot of workflows continuously during a merge to the main branch – a way to mitigate the possibility of them always running is to implement path filters. What are path filters? Path filters in GitHub Actions allow you specify when the workflow/action runs essentially, it helps … Read more
In this blog post, I will show how you can deploy your MkDocs to GitHub Pages with GitHub Actions. What is MKDocs? MKDocs is a great little tool for creating a static site, used commonly to store repository documentation, drawings, some examples etc! MkDocs is a fast, simple and downright gorgeous static site generator that’s geared towards building project documentation. … Read more
Recently I have been automating GitHub Pull Request Body with various updates/outputs from GitHub Actions, I wanted to create a quick blog post on a couple of ways to do this that will hopefully assist you. If you’re like me, you’ve probably found yourself in situations where you need to update the body of a … Read more
Scaling Terraform Deployments with GitHub Actions: Essential Configurations, is part of the 90 Days of DevOps event that Michael Cade has been running, certainly check out the event for lots more awesome DevOps related contributions here What have I covered in this session? My session is a presentation & demo – that covers essential configurations … Read more
As with all pull requests, we want to run various CI checks to ensure validation of your code and one of these is code quality, writing Terraform? Unsure if the Terraform in the pull-request is formatted correctly? This is where GitHub Actions come in handy. In this post, we’ll explore how to ensure your Terraform code … Read more