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Mastering GitHub Actions

Mastering GitHub Actions

By : Eric Chapman
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Mastering GitHub Actions

Mastering GitHub Actions

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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)
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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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What this book covers
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Conventions used
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Part 1:Centralized Workflows to Assist with Governance
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Part 1:Centralized Workflows to Assist with Governance
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Chapter 1: An Overview of GitHub and GitHub Actions
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Chapter 1: An Overview of GitHub and GitHub Actions
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Technical requirements
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Exploring the GitHub platform
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The different types of accounts on GitHub
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Creating a personal GitHub account
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The different types of plans on GitHub
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Creating an organization account
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A brief introduction to GitHub Actions
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An overview of organization accounts
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The .github repository
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Templates and reusable workflow repositories
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Summary
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Chapter 2: Exploring Workflows
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Chapter 2: Exploring Workflows
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Technical requirements
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Exploring workflow capabilities
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Workflow structuring and good habits
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Exploring workflow jobs
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Summary
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Chapter 3: Deep Dive into Reusable Workflows and Composite Actions
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Chapter 3: Deep Dive into Reusable Workflows and Composite Actions
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Technical requirements
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Setting up the CLI
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Introducing reusable workflows
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Understanding composite actions
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Creating a reusable build pipeline
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Debugging techniques for workflows
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Workflow monitoring and alerting
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Summary
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Chapter 4: Workflow Personalization Using GitHub Apps
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Chapter 4: Workflow Personalization Using GitHub Apps
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Technical requirements
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GitHub token options
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Creating a GitHub App
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Installing and managing the App’s credentials
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Leveraging a GitHub App in various use cases
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Chapter 5: Utilizing Starter Workflows in Your Team
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Chapter 5: Utilizing Starter Workflows in Your Team
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Technical requirements
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What are starter workflows?
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Creating our starter workflow
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Utilizing our starter workflow
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Applications of self-service reusable workflows
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Part 2: Implementing Advanced Patterns within Actions
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Part 2: Implementing Advanced Patterns within Actions
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Chapter 6: Using HashiCorp Vault in GitHub
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Chapter 6: Using HashiCorp Vault in GitHub
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Technical requirements
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Understanding what OIDC is
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Setting up a HashiCorp Cloud Vault instance
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Understanding secret engines and where secrets are stored
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Enabling JWT authentication in HashiCorp
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Setting up a workflow to use HashiCorp
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Exploring other security hardening techniques
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Summary
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Chapter 7: Deploying to Azure Using OpenID Connect
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Chapter 7: Deploying to Azure Using OpenID Connect
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Technical requirements
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Exploring our infrastructure using Bicep
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Deploying locally with the Azure CLI
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Deploying infrastructure alongside our application code
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Authorizing our deployments with Azure and OIDC
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Chapter 8: Working with Checks
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Chapter 8: Working with Checks
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Technical requirements
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Exploring check suites and checks
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Understanding commit statuses
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Creating checks and check suites
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Failing and passing checks
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Creating custom actions
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Exploring further action opportunities
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Chapter 9: Annotating Code with Actions
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Chapter 9: Annotating Code with Actions
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Technical requirements
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Exploring annotations within checks
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Annotations in action
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Creating annotations from build output
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Creating annotations from a GitHub App using Probot
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Chapter 10: Advancing with Event-Driven Workflows
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Chapter 10: Advancing with Event-Driven Workflows
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Technical requirements
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Understanding GitHub events more deeply
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Creating an issue from a pull request
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Promoting your new releases
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Designing a chatbot using ChatGPT
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Helpful AI actions and apps
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Chapter 11: Setting Up Self-Hosted Runners
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Chapter 11: Setting Up Self-Hosted Runners
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Technical requirements
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Exploring self-hosted runners
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Exploring ARC
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Running ARC locally
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Using the cloud for your runs
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Advanced techniques with ARC
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Housekeeping
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Summary
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Part 3: Best Practices, Patterns, Tricks, and Tips Toolkit
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Part 3: Best Practices, Patterns, Tricks, and Tips Toolkit
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Chapter 12: The Crawler Pattern
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Chapter 12: The Crawler Pattern
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Technical requirements
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Introducing the crawler pattern
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Making bulk repository changes
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Making bulk content changes
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Chapter 13: The Configuration Centralization Pattern
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Chapter 13: The Configuration Centralization Pattern
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Technical requirements
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Understanding the central configuration pattern
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Creating a repository indexer
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Hosting the results using GitHub Pages
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Chapter 14: Using Remote Workflows to Kickstart Your Products
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Chapter 14: Using Remote Workflows to Kickstart Your Products
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Technical requirements
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Introducing repository dispatch events
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Understanding product kickstarters
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Internal developer portal and other use cases
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Chapter 15: Housekeeping Tips for Your Organization
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Chapter 15: Housekeeping Tips for Your Organization
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Technical requirements
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Managing GitHub costs
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Optimizing uploads and downloads
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Useful reporting techniques for your organization
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Managing your action updates with Dependabot
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Chapter 16: Handy Workflows for Managing Your Software
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Chapter 16: Handy Workflows for Managing Your Software
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Technical requirements
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Exploring commit and pull request linters
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SBOM generation as part of release management
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Your actions toolkit
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Summary
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Index
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Index
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Exploring the GitHub platform

GitHub is a web-based platform for version control and collaboration, enabling developers to collaborate on projects from anywhere in the world. Built on top of the Git distributed version control system, GitHub provides a user-friendly interface for managing and sharing code and tools for issue tracking, code review, and project management. With millions of users and repositories, GitHub has become the largest and most popular open source development and collaboration platform.

The key features of GitHub include the following:

  • Distributed version control with Git
  • Collaborative development with branches, forks, and pull requests
  • Issue tracking and project management tools
  • Integrations with third-party services and APIs
  • Access control and permission management for teams and organizations

Now that you’ve been introduced to the GitHub platform, let’s take a quick walk through the interface and some of the features...

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