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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

Promoting your new releases

More than just a technical milestone, a software release represents a convergence point for developers, stakeholders, and users. While the mechanics of creating and pushing out a release are integral to the process, the communication surrounding this release holds equal, if not greater, weight.

The benefits of communicating software releases are the following:

  • The prevention of redundancy and waste. Consider a scenario where a developer or a team works tirelessly to engineer a solution, unaware that such a solution or feature has already been developed and released. This redundancy isn’t merely a waste of time and resources and a drain on team morale. When teams are uninformed or out of sync about releases, they risk duplicating efforts, leading to inefficiencies and frustrations.
  • Without effective communication, stakeholders and users might remain oblivious to new features or fixes, underutilizing the software’s capabilities...