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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

Preface

Mastering GitHub Actions is the ultimate guide for developers and teams looking to harness the full potential of GitHub Actions in professional and business environments. This comprehensive book covers advanced use cases and real-world scenarios to help you automate workflows, optimize collaboration, and streamline the software development process.

Spanning 16 in-depth chapters, this book delves into the capabilities of GitHub Actions, exploring topics such as team and enterprise features, organization defaults, self-hosted runners, and third-party monitoring tools. You’ll learn how to create and manage reusable workflows, design custom templates, integrate with external services, and implement advanced security and access controls. By following practical examples, you’ll gain insights into the best practices for using GitHub Actions in a team setting while also discovering how to leverage organization accounts for improved efficiency and resource management. Throughout the book, you’ll encounter expert advice and valuable tips to help you navigate the complexities of GitHub Actions in a professional context.