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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 Remote Workflows to Kickstart Your Products

In this chapter, we will explore how to implement a template-based strategy for starting new products leveraging GitHub repository dispatch events. This approach not only initiates projects but also offers flexibility for incorporating any additional tools you might need.

You will learn how to develop a kickstarter workflow. This workflow enables the safe use of centralized repository templates and assists in assembling the essential components for establishing a new repository. It’s a flexible setup that utilizes GitHub templates and events to facilitate a step-by-step process for swiftly setting up a new repository, complete with all the governance and tools needed to begin development immediately.

By the end of this chapter, you will gain a thorough understanding of these GitHub features and how they can be used to expedite the launch of new projects. You’ll be prepared to start each new project on the right track...