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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

Checking the GitHub roadmap

GitHub's roadmap is one of the most reliable ways to be informed about what the company is working on and plans on releasing in future months. The roadmap displays the release plans for many GitHub products, including GitHub Actions.

Important note

To see GitHub's roadmap, visit https://github.com/github/roadmap/projects/1.

The roadmap is organized into quarters. Each feature on the roadmap is categorized based on a few factors:

  • Feature area: Such as ecosystem, which includes API features, for example, and code-to-cloud, which includes GitHub Actions.
  • Release phase: Such as alpha, beta, and generally available (GA).
  • Feature: Such as actions, docs, packages, or pages.
  • Product SKU: This represents the many GitHub product SKUs, such as GitHub team, GitHub Enterprise, GitHub AE, and others:

Figure 9.1 – The GitHub roadmap

Note how GitHub's roadmap lives in a public repository...