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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

Your actions toolkit

You’ve reached the final section of this chapter – congratulations on your perseverance and dedication! So far, our journey has been about building a solid understanding of various platform events, showcasing platform capabilities, and introducing fundamental concepts and action patterns. These insights are designed to empower you to implement widespread changes efficiently or easily deploy crawlers using actions in a reusable manner.

As you move forward, you’re now well-equipped to handle diverse use cases that come your way. However, it’s natural to question whether your approach is optimal: Have others solved similar problems? Are there better methods? What should be your next steps? I will share a collection of valuable resources to address these questions and enhance your knowledge of actions. These tools and knowledge sources, which I’ve accumulated over the years, have significantly contributed to refining my working...