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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

Making bulk content changes

In this section, we’ll focus on rolling out new workflows and making content changes in bulk, but first, let’s take a look at what this workflow looks like.

Understanding the workflow

The process of finalizing a new workflow is illustrated in the following diagram:

Figure 12.10 – Content deploy flow

Figure 12.10 – Content deploy flow

The preceding diagram shows the same flow as the repository changes in the creation of the Adding branch protection section, except that, instead, we’re copying content from the command center and applying it to a repository using a pull request process. Doing this involves a few extra actions, but most of the foundation is the same as before, so I won’t be going over that in much detail and will refer to it as a get-repos job. You can use any method of feeding the matrix you see fit. Let’s put the preceding flow into play by rolling out content across our repositories.

Rolling out...