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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 delved into the world of starter workflows and explored their significance in GitHub Actions. We began by understanding the concept of starter workflows and learned that starter workflows serve as a solid foundation for building workflows, saving time and effort by adopting established best practices and industry-standard approaches.

Following a hands-on approach, we embarked on creating a personalized starter workflow, finely tuned to meet our unique demands. We learned how to configure essential elements in our starter workflows, ensuring they target the repositories where they would be most beneficial using categories, languages, and file patterns. This step-by-step journey provided us with practical expertise in crafting tailored starter workflows perfectly suited to our project’s objectives. Finally, we delved into the utilization of our starter workflow. We learned how to integrate and leverage our customized workflow effectively within our...