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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 .github repository

Every organization’s first repository should be a .github repository. This is a special repository that stores organization-wide configuration files and resources that apply to all repositories in the organization. It is a central location for managing settings, templates, and workflows shared across multiple repositories.

By utilizing a .github repository within your organization, you can streamline the management of shared resources and configurations, ensuring that all repositories follow a consistent set of practices and maintain a unified appearance.

Some of the key elements you can store in a .github repository include the following:

  • Workflow templates: You can create and store reusable GitHub Actions workflow templates in the .github repository. Other repositories within the organization can easily access and use these templates, promoting consistency and best practices across your projects.
  • Issue and pull request templates: By...