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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

What are starter workflows?

Starter workflows are pre-configured templates provided by GitHub Actions to serve as a launching point for your automation processes. These ready-to-use workflows address common use cases and provide a solid foundation for building customized workflows.

Starter workflows come with predefined triggers, jobs, and steps, making it easier to get started without having to write everything from scratch. They offer a practical starting point and serve as a valuable reference for understanding the structure and syntax of GitHub Actions workflows.

These templates cover a wide range of scenarios, such as building and testing applications, deploying to cloud platforms, running code analysis, and more. Leveraging starter workflows can save time and effort by adopting established best practices and industry-standard approaches.

Starter workflows are highly customizable, allowing you to modify and extend them to fit your requirements. You can add or remove steps...