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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

Advancing with Event-Driven Workflows

Building upon our foundational knowledge of events, this chapter takes a practical dive into their advanced applications. By understanding how to use events as triggers effectively, we unveil the capability to instantly generate an issue from a pull request and how to send out communications on a published release. This demonstrates the efficacy of event-driven processes and showcases how pivotal they can be in redefining our workflows.

In the realm of GitHub Actions, events are powerful triggers that drive the automation process. While many of us might be familiar with events in the context of pull requests, the true depth and breadth of GitHub’s event spectrum extend much further. This chapter aims to highlight the lesser-known, yet immensely potent event types that can enrich our workflows and add layers of automation to our projects.

Yet, the horizon of possibilities doesn’t end here. Marrying the versatility of GitHub Actions...