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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 a HashiCorp Cloud Vault instance

In this section, we’ll explore the HashiCorp Cloud Vault offering and set up a development-only cluster with a public IP address for the workshops we will do. Implementing the scripts and actions you see in this book will be production ready. However, the implementation of this HashiCorp instance will not be production ready, as it is being configured for development purposes only.

If you wish to use this product in your environment, I suggest contacting the HashiCorp team today for guidance and support on being production safe for your organization’s setup.

What is HashiCorp Cloud Vault?

To give you a bit of background on Vault in case you’ve not heard of it, Hashicorp Vault is a popular open source secrets management (recently a cloud offering) and data protection tool. It provides a secure and centralized way to store, manage, and access sensitive information such as API keys, passwords, certificates, and...