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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

Using the cloud for your runs

Modern software development demands efficiency and reliability, making the choice of infrastructure critical. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is one of the leaders in managed Kubernetes services. By using a cloud-hosted platform such as AKS, teams can effortlessly scale resources to match their growing workload demands, ensuring that resource allocation is efficient and cost-effective. Beyond scalability, the reliability of AKS’s built-in redundancy and high availability ensures that deployment cycles continue unhindered, even if part of the infrastructure faces challenges.

In this section, we will install ARC on our AKS instance, which we’ll create from Bicep. We’ll also bolster our security and move to a GitHub app instead of a PAT.

Setting up Kubernetes using Bicep

This section will involve deploying SSH keys for VMs, using them to power our Kubernetes cluster, which we’ll deploy using Bicep. To get us through this...