Creating a Release with GitHub Actions

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Creating a Release with GitHub Actions

Your team has set up an automated build process for your application code. You want to store this artifact so other teams can access it for downstream work. You will need to build out the workflow file to leverage GitHub Packages to store new versions of your code with each new build.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 23, 2025

Duration

45m

Challenge

Set up a GitHub Repository
1. Fork the repo https://github.com/linuxacademy/content-github-actions-deep-dive-lesson.
2. Check out the lab branch and confirm /github/workflows/deploy-pipeline.yaml contains lint and build jobs.
  
  Note: You can clone the repo locally or work in the GitHub browser.
  
  If you have trouble, the complete code for one possible solution is on the lab-package-solution.
Challenge

Create a Release
1. Create a publish job.
2. Add a step to create a release and commit the changes.
3. Check the release in the GitHub console. It has the complete codebase, but not the build artifact with the dependencies.
Challenge

Add a Release Asset
1. Set the publish job to run after the build job.
2. Add a step to the publish job to upload the build artifact as a part of the release and commit the changes.
  
  Note: The new release will contain a zipped bundle with all the libraries.

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