Tutorials Microservices with .NET
Installing Git and GitHub in Visual Studio — Complete Guide
Installing Git and GitHub in Visual Studio — Complete Guide: free step-by-step lesson with examples, common mistakes, and interview tips — part of Microservices with .NET on Toolliyo Academy.
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Microservices with .NET · Lesson 87 of 120
GitHub Actions
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Advanced · 3 — Production skills · ~10 min · Module 9: Git, GitHub and CI/CD
What is this?
GitHub Actions is a key part of ShopNest Cloud-Native — your .NET microservices learning project. In plain terms: it helps Notification Service work correctly in a distributed system where each app deploys and scales on its own.
Why should you care?
You care about this when more than one developer touches ShopNest and you need safe merges and automatic test-and-deploy pipelines.
See it live — copy this example
Create a Web API project (dotnet new webapi), paste the code, then run dotnet run.
git checkout -b feature/order-saga
git commit -m "feat(order): add PlaceOrder saga consumer"
git push -u origin feature/order-saga
Run Example »
This lesson uses terminal or setup steps. Run commands on your computer — the live editor appears on coding lessons.
What happened?
- The example shows GitHub Actions wired into Notification Service.
- Read each line, run it locally, then change one setting and observe what breaks or improves.
- That is how teams learn in production too — small experiments, not big bang rewrites.
Try it yourself
- Open or create the ShopNest project area for Notification Service.
- Apply the GitHub Actions pattern from the lesson example.
- Run dotnet build && dotnet run (or docker compose up when the lesson uses containers).
- Change a string or number in the example and run again — predict the output first.
- Break the code on purpose (remove a semicolon), read the compiler error, then fix it.
Remember
GitHub Actions connects to Notification Service in ShopNest Cloud-Native. Practice by editing the example yourself — do not only read. Move on when you can explain this topic in your own words without looking.
Real-world: Zoho-style SaaS billing
Billing, tenant provisioning, and feature flags are separate services. A billing fix deploys without redeploying the entire admin UI backend.
Outcome: Multi-tenant isolation and faster team velocity on subscription changes.