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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

Setting up the CLI

For our tasks in this chapter, we will need to create a repository and install a CLI for the debugging part of this book. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. First, we will need a repository in which to create workflows and try out the functionality. Create and initialize a GHA.workflows repository in the organization we created in Chapter 1.
  2. We’ll then need to update the repository settings so that the reusable workflows we store in this in the future can be called from within the organization. To do so, you will need to open up the GitHub Actions General tab under the settings of the repository as we have done in previous chapters, and scroll to the Access section of this page, which, at the time of writing, is the last section of the page:
Figure 3.1 – Set accessibility on the account

Figure 3.1 – Set accessibility on the account

To enable local debugging of our actions in the later part of this chapter, we’re also going to need to install the...