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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

The Crawler Pattern

In the ever-evolving landscape of software development and data management, it’s crucial to have efficient and scalable tools that can handle bulk operations with ease. Enter the crawler pattern, a powerful technique that has become a cornerstone of my approach to mass repository management. This chapter is dedicated to unveiling the intricacies of this pattern, exploring its numerous applications, and showcasing its remarkable potential to transform how we handle repositories on a large scale.

Throughout this chapter, I’ll share personal anecdotes and insights from my journey with the crawler pattern, detailing how it became a game-changer in streamlining and optimizing repository management tasks. Whether you are new to the concept or simply looking to refine your approach, the examples provided herein will guide you through efficiently managing, updating, and modifying repositories in bulk, crafting multiple pull requests simultaneously while...