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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

Technical requirements

To follow along with the hands-on material in this chapter, you will need to follow the steps in the previous chapter or access the resources from that chapter and refer back to it if anything is ambiguous to you. We will continue to use our self-hosted runners to make these changes.

You’ll need to add the topic of public on three to four public repositories in your organization. At the very least you need one, but to demonstrate a valuable output, having a couple would be useful. You can fork any repository on GitHub to your account if you do not have many.

You’ll need to create a fork of the SAP Innersource portal at https://github.com/SAP/project-portal-for-innersource into your organization account. Rename the repository My.GitHubOrg.

You’ll also need to create three GitHub Apps, which we have done previously. If you need a refresher, you can refer to the Setting up a GitHub App section in Chapter 11. Create the three apps listed...