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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

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...