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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

Handy Workflows for Managing Your Software

This book’s concluding chapter marks the culmination of our journey through GitHub Actions. Throughout this book, we’ve explored various facets of GitHub Actions, equipping ourselves with the knowledge and skills to seek relevant information and craft solutions tailored to our needs, ensuring security, efficiency, and a personalized experience.

In this final chapter, we’ll delve into practical workflows that are essential in software development, enabling you to conduct quality checks and ensure your software’s integrity by creating a software bill of materials (SBOM). Additionally, we’ll provide a curated list of valuable resources, including highly recommended actions by the community, to enhance your workflow designs.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • Exploring commit and pull request linters
  • SBOM generation as part of release management
  • Your actions toolkit...