Introduction
I obtained a coupon code for Houssem Dellai’s Study Github Actions for CI/CD DevOps Pipelines Course. I’ve written about GitLab runners and the CI/CD means of that software up to now. I’ve used GitHub actions to test this weblog for damaged hyperlinks. I’ve used TravisCI (and written why to not belief TravisCI). I’ve used and BitBucket Pipelines in my skilled life. I wished to study an enormous extra about what GitHub Actions may do and the coupon code made this 4 hour course definitely worth the time to research.
You will see beneath in additional element, however this course was not what I anticipated. It is marketed as being for “All newcomers” and “Ops consultants”. I argue that each of those are incorrect. This course felt extra like a 20-30 lecture “GitHub Actions Cookbook” than a course seeking to clarify GitHub actions.
Let’s undergo it…
Course Overview
There are a number of codecs the trainer makes use of on this course. It is fairly apparent that the sections on this lecture have been recorded independantly. Some lectures happen solely inside the GitHub interface, some are utilizing Powerpoint slides to drive the lecture, one is completed on a whiteboard. To me, it appears the varied lectures have been bundled collectively.
After a little bit of analysis – and a mid-lecture “Take a look at my YouTube” – it is clear why that feeling exists. The lectures can be found on YouTube. Not the entire movies on YouTube are a part of this course, however scrolling by way of, I can rapidly see that most of the movies within the course are on YouTube.
As for the content material of the course, it does not match what I used to be anticipating. With the “All newcomers” commercial, I used to be anticipating extra dialogue and protection on why sure issues have been being finished. A dialogue on the commerce offs or the trainer’s by way of course of on how you can accomplish duties.
As a substitute, the content material is lots of “that is my code to perform this activity”. It’s a nice course to get the short run down of how you can accomplish duties, particularly with Azure. Nonetheless, it’s not course if you wish to know why a selected block of code is the most effective path to go. It is a cookbook to perform a activity. A handful of lectures do cowl concept, however these are few and really far between.
Conclusion
If my coupon hadn’t knocked off the whole worth of the course, I might be upset with this one. I additionally picked up two different programs by this teacher and I believe I will discover related issues with these programs. Actually, that is to unhealthy, as a result of the content material is sweet. It is simply not marketed the way it’s packaged. With my expectations set for studying a bit, it is disappointing to get lectures which might be designed to be copy and pasted from.
Do not come into this anticipating to study lots of reasoning behind how issues are completed. If you happen to want an outline of how you can accomplish the duties within the content material listing although, you may discover that. It will be a comparatively dry walkthrough of the precise code you want. However, if you wish to know why…this is not the course for you.
If yow will discover a coupon code for this, I believe it is price your time to see how a few of these superior duties are completed. If you cannot discover that coupon although, head over to the teacher’s YouTube web page and watch that part at no cost.
