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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

Summary

In this chapter, you have gained a foundational understanding of GitHub’s personal and organization accounts, learning how to create them and navigate their interfaces. These skills will be incredibly valuable moving forward, as the ability to manage accounts effectively is a fundamental part of using GitHub. The process of creating a team within an organization account and establishing repositories was also covered. This knowledge will enable you to organize your projects better, improve collaboration, and manage code more effectively. Understanding these aspects sets a strong foundation for you to better utilize GitHub’s potential in your future work or projects as well as to follow along with the rest of the book.

In the next chapter, we will learn about workflows, as well as how to create some workflows and structure them in the best possible way.