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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

The different types of plans on GitHub

GitHub offers various plans designed to cater to the needs of different users, from individuals to large enterprises. Understanding the differences between these plans is crucial for selecting the right one for your organization.

What you went through previously was creating a free GitHub account, known as a personal account. There are two other account types available: a Team account and an enterprise account.

Let’s take a closer look at these plans in the following sections. Do note that at the time of writing this, the following were the available offerings; please consult https://github.com/pricing for the latest pricing information.

GitHub Free

The GitHub Free plan is designed for individuals and small teams looking to get started with GitHub. It offers basic features such as unlimited public and private repositories and 2,000 minutes per month of GitHub Actions usage on GitHub-hosted runners. However, this plan does not...