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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, we explored the power of GitHub Apps in enhancing our workflows. We learned how to create a custom GitHub App, set permissions to control access, and install it in our repositories. By collecting and securely managing secrets for our GitHub App, we achieved a personalized workflow experience. With our GitHub App in place, we gained fine-grained control over the permissions it had within our repositories. This allowed us to tailor access to specific resources and actions, ensuring a secure and controlled environment for our workflows.

By installing the GitHub App in our repositories, we established a seamless integration that provided context and capabilities for our workflows. Through careful management of secrets, such as access tokens and API keys, we ensured secure authentication and authorization within our workflows. The collected secrets were securely stored and made accessible as environment secrets, enabling seamless and secure interaction with the...