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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 organization accounts

As mentioned earlier in this chapter, collaboration is more streamlined in a GitHub organization, and access controls are easier to maintain. Organization accounts offer advanced access control and permission management features that make it easy to control who has access to what resources. For example, you can set base permissions for anyone that enters an organization. You can set defaults for repositories, put limits on what can be used, set up self-hosted runners, and more. We will only review some of these aspects in this section as these remaining features are covered in future chapters or are beyond the scope of this book.

Managing teams

One of the most significant benefits of using a GitHub organization account is the ability to create and manage teams within your organization. Teams provide a logical way for group members to work on specific projects or areas, making it easier to collaborate and manage access to repositories. By assigning...