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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

Summary

In this chapter, we delved deeper into the advanced applications of events. Going beyond a basic understanding, we explored the potential of using events as efficient triggers, emphasizing their ability to instantly create issues from pull requests and facilitate notifications about our releases. This not only underlines the importance of event-driven processes but also showcases their transformative impact on workflows.

Within the scope of GitHub Actions, events are not just mere triggers but the backbone of automation. While many are acquainted with events related to pull requests, GitHub offers many event types, many of which remain underutilized. This chapter highlights these powerful, lesser-known events, emphasizing their role in enhancing automation in our projects.

The chapter finished by demonstrating some AI use cases through GitHub Actions and apps, marking a thrilling and emerging domain. Additionally, there was a short discussion on GitHub Copilot and its...