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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

Housekeeping Tips for Your Organization

As a team leader or team member, you’re often confronted with the challenge of balancing operational efficiency with cost management. This chapter delves into critical areas that will enhance your team’s GitHub experience while keeping a close eye on the economics of your operations.

This chapter will focus on a detailed examination of the costs associated with GitHub Actions. We will scrutinize the specific billable items that are vital to be aware of when dealing with GitHub. By exploring the billable components heavily used by Actions in depth, we aim to clarify whether these components are the most suitable and cost-effective for your specific needs.

In addition to cost management, this chapter also touches on reporting. We will guide you and inform you of Actions available to generate reports on your teams’ activities within GitHub, leveraging the GitHub API. This reporting is about tracking progress and providing...