I recently had the privilege of presenting an introduction to GitHub Actions at the New Zealand GitHub User Group. The recording of the session is available on YouTube.

I recently had the privilege of presenting an overview of the new GitHub Copilot App Modernization tools at the New Zealand GitHub User Group. The recording of the session is available on YouTube.

I recently had the privilege of opening the New Zealand GitHub User Group with a presentation on using Azure Container Apps for self-hosted GitHub Actions Runners. The recording of the session is available on YouTube.

In a recent project we used GitHub Actions to deploy our Terraform code. While not the best way to deploy Terraform, we had it working nicely.

One of the biggest challenges we encountered was how to download the private Terraform modules we had created. In a GitHub Actions workflow you can specify the permissions that the runner should be granted. However, these permissions are scoped to the repository that the Action is running on, and it is not possible to add additional repos to the permission set.

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