I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The TL;DR is that it's coming in the next few months–on bretfisher.com–and I'm going to let some waitlist people into Early Access while it's still being built, so they can help shape what I teach around DevOps automations in GitHub Actions (GHA) and using AI LLMs and Agents in workflows. I created a waitlist so you can quickly signup for some content updates, discounts, and more as I finish building the course:
👉 https://courses.bretfisher.com/waitlist
🍿 How this course happened
I started consulting on GitHub Actions in 2020-2021 and fell in love with it as my new favorite CI and automation tool.
In 2022/2023 I created a live cohort-based course to teach a specific GitHub Actions CI+CD workflow that I thought was awesome. It was for using GitHub Actions to build advanced container images, test them on k3s, and then using Argo CD to automate GitOps-style deployments to Kubernetes. The course was a lot of fun and we got great feedback from dozens of students, but since it was live in Zoom with me for weeks at a time, it was expensive and not easily repeatable for thousands of people.
So, we wanted to make a full GitHub Actions course for DevOps automation and I started planning for that in 2024.
But then AI Agents and MCP were invented and I have spent the last five months obsessed with everything Agentic DevOps.
In early 2025, I decided that the GitHub Actions course would incorporate AI. No one was talking about using AI in DevOps, though. No one trusted these crazy texting robots in their automations. Then GitHub started releasing AI features left and right. I realized this course may have a lot of AI-related topics in it, because this Agent/MCP/A2A stuff is still hard, and there's a lot of hype and "only works in a demo" stuff out there. I had major questions I needed to answer:
What AI tools, automations, and agents would I be willing to put in a real business on GitHub Actions? What works right now, what's too early, and what's the hype we should ignore?
That's some of what this course aims to answer. Not just a modern walkthrough of GitHub Action features, but an experience-backed deep dive into GHA advanced features like reusable workflows, caching, self-hosted runners, org-based policies, security gotchas, and more real-world lessons from my consulting. Then we'll start adding AI prompting and Actions to workflows and see what we can get working reliably and safely.
I've got a lot more I want to talk about with Actions and AI, but that's for people interested in this topic enough to sign up for the waitlist. I hope you'll join me on this journey of AI automation with the most popular code automation platform.
🎉 https://courses.bretfisher.com/waitlist
I'll see you there,
Bret