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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

Creating an organization account

This book will use an organization account to build workflows and automated processes. If you’ve been following this book, you should only have a personal account and need to create an organization account. This can be done from a web browser by following these steps:

  1. Navigate to https://github.com/account/organizations/new and ensure you have logged in to GitHub using your personal account beforehand. You’ll get a web page as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 1.3 – Creation of an organization account

Figure 1.3 – Creation of an organization account

  1. Provide an organization account name and contact email; if either of these is invalid, you’ll get an error message.
  2. Then select the My personal account option under “This organization belongs to”; validate that the account is correct.
  3. Upon completing the robot verification, you can invite others to join your organization on the next screen:
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