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Want to streamline your CI/CD workflows and ship faster with confidence? In this @VisualStudioLive session from Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026, Marcel de Vries breaks down how to effectively use GitHub Actions—from foundational concepts to real-world enterprise implementations.
Learn how to design secure, scalable workflows for continuous integration and deployment, manage releases, and implement modern deployment strategies with GitHub Actions as your automation engine.
🔑 What You’ll Learn
• How GitHub Actions works as a flexible workflow engine for CI/CD
• Structuring workflows with events, jobs, runners, and reusable actions
• Best practices for fast feedback CI vs. production-ready CD pipelines
• Managing secrets, tokens, and security in enterprise environments
• Using CodeQL and GitHub Advanced Security to detect vulnerabilities
• Creating releases with semantic versioning and automated workflows
• Modern deployment strategies: blue/green, rolling, and ring-based deployments
• How to implement zero-downtime deployments with Azure and Kubernetes
⏱️ Chapters
00:00 Introduction + GitHub Actions overview
03:00 GitHub Actions architecture: events, jobs, runners
06:00 YAML workflows, triggers, and branching strategies
12:54 Building fast feedback CI pipelines
16:50 Demo: workflows, builds, and test reporting
24:48 Security with CodeQL and dependency scanning
29:14 Creating releases and semantic versioning
38:29 Demo: creating releases
40:38 Deployment strategies and zero-downtime principles
43:44 Kubernetes rolling deployments
47:20 Ring-based deployments and feature rollouts
48:43 Azure Web Apps deployment slots and traffic routing
53:50 Observability, health checks, and monitoring
59:46 Environments, approvals, and release governance
👤 Speaker
Marcel de Vries
Global Managing Director & CTO, Xebia
🔗 Links
• Download Visual Studio 2026: http://visualstudio.com/download
• Explore more VS Live! Las Vegas sessions: https://aka.ms/VSLiveLV26
• Join upcoming VS Live! events: https://aka.ms/VSLiveEvents
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