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Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions

By : Priscila Heller
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Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions

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

Summary

Excellent work! You have reached the end of Chapter 6, Marketplace: Finding Existing Actions and Publishing Your Own. You are one step closer to completing this book and growing your knowledge of GitHub Actions.

By reading this chapter, you have gained the experience needed to navigate around GitHub Marketplace and search for actions created by the community. You reviewed best practices to help you prepare your repository before publishing your action. You followed the steps to successfully publish your action in GitHub Marketplace and, lastly, you learned how to remove your action as well.

You have accomplished an important milestone: you now know how to start using GitHub Actions to implement or optimize your CI/CD workflows and your DevOps practices! Use this expertise to plan and execute a wide variety of workflows that can integrate with other platforms you already use. Use your creativity to write actions that can be as simple or as complex as you need them to be...