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Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions

By : Priscila Heller
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Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions

By: Priscila Heller

Overview of this book

GitHub Actions is one of the most popular products that enables you to automate development tasks and improve your software development workflow. Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions uses real-world examples to help you automate everyday tasks and use your resources efficiently. This book takes a practical approach to helping you develop the skills needed to create complex YAML files to automate your daily tasks. You'll learn how to find and use existing workflows, allowing you to get started with GitHub Actions right away. Moving on, you'll discover complex concepts and practices such as self-hosted runners and writing workflow files that leverage other platforms such as Docker as well as programming languages such as Java and JavaScript. As you advance, you'll be able to write your own JavaScript, Docker, and composite run steps actions, and publish them in GitHub Marketplace! You'll also find instructions to migrate your existing CI/CD workflows into GitHub Actions from platforms like Travis CI and GitLab. Finally, you'll explore tools that'll help you stay informed of additions to GitHub Actions along with finding technical support and staying engaged with the community. By the end of this GitHub book, you'll have developed the skills and experience needed to build and maintain your own CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Section 1:Introduction and Overview of Technologies Used with GitHub Actions
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Section 2: Advanced Concepts and Hands-On Exercises to Create Actions
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Section 3: Customizing Existing Actions, Migrations, and the Future of GitHub Actions

Summary

By reading the first seven chapters of this book, you have gathered the necessary skills to implement a complete CI/CD pipeline to automate important tasks that are part of your software development life cycle. You have also learned how to migrate your current pipelines and workflows from other platforms into GitHub Actions, which allows you to manage your code and automation in one single place.

As you begin to put these new skills into practice, you will likely have questions and require practical guidance. You will probably also want to share the lessons you have learned with others and appreciate being part of the community that makes GitHub Actions such a collaborative tool.

In the next Chapter 8, Contributing to the Community and Finding Help, you will review the resources available to support you in your journey of automating workflows with GitHub actions. You will also explore ways in which you can contribute to the community and find help when you need it.

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