Building your first GitHub Actions workflow can be exciting. You dig into the documentation, write a cool operation, and immediately have to stand up a server in the cloud or navigate your firewall and DNS changes. What started as a fun, simple way to automate your software development processes became a mess of ports, protocols, and networking. What if it didn’t have to be? What if you could sit down to build and actually build?

In this presentation, we’ll cut through the complexity and show you how to securely configure service containers, add CI/CD, or automate workflows that make your life easier. We’ll start from hello world, explore routing and debugging requests, and extend our integration live to handle changes in your code, repository, and explore all you can do with ngrok and GitHub together.