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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

Part 3: Best Practices, Patterns, Tricks, and Tips Toolkit

In this part, we conclude by exploring and implementing several strategies I employ for efficient management within a large organization. Moreover, we delve into utilizing actions to implement reusable templates for applications and their repositories. We also examine strategies for minimizing costs and wrap up by presenting a series of workflows and resources, laying a robust foundation for you to provide to your team.

This part has the following chapters:

  • Chapter 12, The Crawler Pattern
  • Chapter 13, The Configuration Centralization Pattern
  • Chapter 14, Using Remote Workflows to Kickstart Your Products
  • Chapter 15, Housekeeping Tips for Your Organization
  • Chapter 16, Handy Workflows for Managing Your Software