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Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions

Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions

By : Priscila Heller
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Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions

Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions

4.4 (13)
By: Priscila Heller

Overview of this book

GitHub Actions is one of the most popular products that enables you to automate development tasks and improve your software development workflow. Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions uses real-world examples to help you automate everyday tasks and use your resources efficiently. This book takes a practical approach to helping you develop the skills needed to create complex YAML files to automate your daily tasks. You'll learn how to find and use existing workflows, allowing you to get started with GitHub Actions right away. Moving on, you'll discover complex concepts and practices such as self-hosted runners and writing workflow files that leverage other platforms such as Docker as well as programming languages such as Java and JavaScript. As you advance, you'll be able to write your own JavaScript, Docker, and composite run steps actions, and publish them in GitHub Marketplace! You'll also find instructions to migrate your existing CI/CD workflows into GitHub Actions from platforms like Travis CI and GitLab. Finally, you'll explore tools that'll help you stay informed of additions to GitHub Actions along with finding technical support and staying engaged with the community. By the end of this GitHub book, you'll have developed the skills and experience needed to build and maintain your own CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Section 1:Introduction and Overview of Technologies Used with GitHub Actions
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Section 2: Advanced Concepts and Hands-On Exercises to Create Actions
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Section 3: Customizing Existing Actions, Migrations, and the Future of GitHub Actions

Securing your GitHub Actions

Now that you have learned how to create GitHub Actions workflows from scratch – and how to customize existing workflows templates – you have seen how the secrets context is often used within those workflows. Using secrets is the most important security practice you can adopt to keep your GitHub Actions features safe. However, there are other good practices that you should consider. This section will present the following best practices:

  • Secrets – how to create and use them
  • Securely adding third-party actions to your workflow
  • Best practices for securing self-hosted runners

Let's look at these in more detail.

Secrets – how to create and use them

Secrets are encrypted environment variables that you can store at the repository, environment, or organization levels. Organization-level secrets are outside the scope of this book.

A brief overview

Except for the GITHUB_TOKEN secret – more...

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