Deployment with GitHub Actions
📌 Covered in this chapter:
Build Workflow · GitHub Pages Deploy · Environment Secrets · Rollback
Extend your CI pipeline into continuous deployment — automatically shipping your app to GitHub Pages, Vercel, or the cloud on merge.
1Deployment with GitHub Actions — What You'll Learn
Extend your CI pipeline into continuous deployment — automatically shipping your app to GitHub Pages, Vercel, or the cloud on merge.
Here's everything this chapter covers, in the order you'll learn it:
- Building a deployable artifact in a workflow
- Deploying a frontend automatically
- Deploying a backend automatically
- Deploying to GitHub Pages
- Deploying to Vercel
- Deploying to other cloud providers
- Storing secrets securely as repository secrets
- Using repository variables for non-secret config
- Requiring deployment approvals for production
- Rolling back a bad deployment
- Preview deployments for pull requests
- Checking deployment status
2Best Practices & Common Pitfalls
💡 Key things to remember:
- Never hard-code API keys or deployment credentials in a workflow file — always store them as encrypted GitHub repository/environment secrets and reference them as ${{ secrets.NAME }}.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Q What's the most important thing to understand about deployment with github actions?
Focus on: Build Workflow · GitHub Pages Deploy · Environment Secrets · Rollback. These are the core building blocks this chapter's examples are built around, and they show up repeatedly in later chapters of this course.
Q Is deployment with github actions something I'll use often in real projects?
Yes — every concept in this chapter reflects a real, everyday part of professional Git and GitHub workflows, not just a theoretical exercise.