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Azure for Developers - Third Edition
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GitHub Actions is a robust platform that allows you to build any application and deploy it to Azure with ease. By using this tool, you can easily set up your CI/CD pipelines and integrate them with your cloud environment. When it comes to use cases, GitHub Actions can not only work as your main mechanism for CI and releasing new versions of software but it’s also possible to use it as an orchestration platform to perform several common activities, such as the following:
Let’s consider a workflow where you set up a schedule and run a few different activities, such as creating a container and collecting the results of such a run, or executing a Bash script that will query a database. You don’t need Kubernetes, Azure Functions, or Azure Container Apps to perform such an operation – they could possibly run on your CI/CD agent if...