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- [Instructor] Now that our pipeline is in place, we can have a little fun with it by adding a status badge to the read me file. Status badges let us present a graphical representation of a workflow's current state. By default, status badges track the master branch, but you can use query parameters to track other branches, and even other events like pull requests and releases. Usually, badges are placed on the read me file in the root directory of the repository, but feel free to put them wherever you'd like. The format is pretty simple. The link starts with github.com followed by the owner and the name of the repository. The word workflows and then the name of the workflow that you want to show the status of. Then you end the whole thing with badge.svg. I've added a link to a status badge at the top of our cicd pipeline's read me file. Let's look at the preview. Hey, that looks pretty sweet. Now we can show everyone that…

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