I've dealt with GitHub repositories for years, but I have never had a chance to use GitHub Actions. Since I'm starting, I utilized GitHub Copilot to help me build my first workflow so I can have it handle the deployment of my code. I was able to create the secrets needed for it to talk to my server as well as just do the deployment the way I've been doing it manually, it worked GREAT!

I decided to give a try to using a GitHub Runner so I can deploy locally to my internal environment based on a Private Repo and there were a few gotchas around my tests and trying to deploy using the runner, but other than that its worked.

Ok, thanks for coming to my TED talk 😄