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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

An Overview of GitHub and GitHub Actions

Automation is good, so long as you know exactly where to put the machine.

– Eliyahu Goldratt

Welcome to Mastering GitHub Actions! In this book, we aim to guide you through harnessing the full potential of GitHub Actions in a professional team and enterprise environment. Whether you are a seasoned developer, DevOps engineer, or team lead, this book will provide practical knowledge, real-world examples, and advanced techniques to streamline your software development life cycle using GitHub Actions. By the end of this journey, you will have gained valuable insights and hands-on experience in designing, implementing, and optimizing sophisticated CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows for your organization, and will have taken a peek into GitHub Apps.

In this chapter, after a quick introduction to GitHub, the action runners, and the accounts available, we’ll create an account and work through the required repositories. Also...