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Mastering GitHub Actions

By : Eric Chapman
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Mastering GitHub Actions

By: Eric Chapman

Overview of this book

Navigating GitHub Actions often leaves developers grappling with inefficiencies and collaboration bottlenecks. Mastering GitHub Actions offers solutions to these challenges, ensuring smoother software development. With 16 extensive chapters, this book simplifies GitHub Actions, walking you through its vast capabilities, from team and enterprise features to organization defaults, self-hosted runners, and monitoring tools. You’ll learn how to craft reusable workflows, design bespoke templates, publish actions, incorporate external services, and introduce enhanced security measures. Through hands-on examples, you’ll gain best-practice insights for team-based GitHub Actions workflows and discover strategies for maximizing organization accounts. Whether you’re a software engineer or a DevOps guru, by the end of this book, you'll be adept at amplifying productivity and leveraging automation's might to refine your development process.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1:Centralized Workflows to Assist with Governance
7
Part 2: Implementing Advanced Patterns within Actions
14
Part 3: Best Practices, Patterns, Tricks, and Tips Toolkit

Exploring further action opportunities

As we saw when we created an action for the marketplace, we had a few recommendations and noted some limitations that are opportunities for extension. We also don’t have a lot of customization opportunities or anything that can make it live up to its name of rich checks. In this section, let’s jump through a couple of our opportunities, and why don’t you try extending your action to encompass these opportunities?

Branding

Branding information in GitHub Actions is not a technical requirement. Still, it provides a way to identify actions in the GitHub Marketplace visually and when sharing the action with others. It helps to create a more professional and recognizable representation of the action.

Here’s what branding information typically includes:

  • icon: An icon helps users quickly identify the action, especially if it’s part of a suite of actions or products by the same author or organization...