GitHub Actions Tutorial: AWS & Azure Infrastructure Deployment

Cloud teams often inherit manual deployment steps across AWS and Azure, creating inconsistent releases, slow onboarding, and operational risk. This intermediate course gives IT Directors a focused way to standardize how software developers, cloud engineers, and DevOps professionals use GitHub Actions to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure.

The course is best assigned to practitioners with at least one year of experience who already understand cloud and DevOps fundamentals. Plan for about 9 hours per learner to complete the core training, plus time for internal review before adapting workflows to production environments. Because the course covers AWS and Azure connectivity, CloudFormation, account cleanup, S3 migrations, EC2 management with Ansible, VPC connectivity with ZeroTier, Terraform deployments, and Azure Container Instances, Team Leads should align assignments to the cloud services each team supports.

For rollout, treat this as change-management training: pilot workflows in non-production, document approved patterns, and track team progress with CBT Nuggets Playlists and Team Reporting.

IT teams complete this training to turn GitHub Actions into a repeatable automation layer for common AWS and Azure infrastructure tasks. The course maps directly to work that cloud and DevOps teams handle during onboarding, migration, cleanup, and deployment efforts.

• Standardize cloud deployment workflows by training teams to use GitHub Actions for AWS CloudFormation and Terraform-based infrastructure changes.
• Reduce manual operational effort by automating AWS account cleanup tasks and recurring infrastructure management steps.
• Support cloud migration work with GitHub Actions workflows for Amazon S3 data migrations and Azure Container Instances deployments.
• Improve infrastructure operations consistency by connecting GitHub Actions to AWS and Azure services, including EC2 management with Ansible and Amazon VPC connectivity with ZeroTier.

Knowledge

• How GitHub Actions can connect to AWS and Microsoft Azure for infrastructure automation.
• Where GitHub Actions fits into AWS CloudFormation and Terraform deployment workflows.
• Common automation patterns for Amazon S3 migrations, EC2 operations, and AWS account cleanup.
• How Azure Container Instances can be deployed from GitHub Actions.
• How tools such as Ansible and ZeroTier can support cloud infrastructure workflows.

Ability

• Configure GitHub Actions workflows that interact with AWS services.
• Build workflow-driven deployments for AWS CloudFormation and Terraform templates.
• Automate selected AWS cleanup, migration, and EC2 management tasks.
• Connect GitHub Actions workflows to Microsoft Azure.
• Deploy container workloads to Azure Container Instances from GitHub Actions.