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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

Introducing reusable workflows

Reusable workflows in GitHub Actions allow you to define a workflow template that can be reused across multiple repositories or projects. The following are a few of the key benefits of using a reusable workflow:

  • Standardized CI/CD pipelines: Reusable workflows allow you to establish standardized CI/CD pipelines across your organization. You can define a set of reusable workflows for common tasks such as building, testing, and deploying applications.
  • Efficient collaboration: Teams can leverage predefined workflows, reducing the need to reinvent the wheel for each project. This promotes productivity, consistency, and knowledge sharing among teams.
  • Promoting a DevOps culture: By sharing standardized workflows, development teams can concentrate on writing code while relying on established practices and processes.
  • Accelerated onboarding: Reusable workflows simplify the onboarding process for new team members. With predefined workflows,...