As we saw in the previous post, we have developed an entire pipeline for an Alexa Skill using CircleCI. Now we are going to build the same, but using the new continuous integration tool provided by GitHub, GitHub Actions in order to understand how it works and see the differences compared to the previous CI/CD platform used.
In turn, we are going to use the ASK CLI v2 and we will also use the file structure from an Alexa Skill provided by this new second version.
Prerequisites
Here are the technologies used in this project:
- Amazon Developer Account - How to create an account
- AWS Account - Sign up here for free
- ASK CLI - Install and configure ASK CLI
- GitHub Account - Sign up here for free
- Visual Studio Code
The Alexa Skills Kit Command Line Interface (ASK CLI) is a tool for us to manage our Alexa Skills and its related resources, such as AWS Lambda functions. With the ASK CLI, we have access to the Skill Management API, which allows us to manage Alexa Skills through the command line.
If you want to create a skill with ASK CLI v2, follow the steps described in the official Amazon Alexa documentation.
We are going to use this tool to perform some steps in our pipeline.
Let’s DevOps!
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