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Mastering GitHub Actions
Mastering GitHub Actions

Mastering GitHub Actions: Advance your automation skills with the latest techniques for software integration and deployment

By Eric Chapman
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Book Mar 2024 490 pages 1st Edition
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Publication date : Mar 22, 2024
Length 490 pages
Edition : 1st Edition
Language : English
ISBN-13 : 9781805128625
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Mastering GitHub Actions

Part 1:Centralized Workflows to Assist with Governance

In this part, we provide a comprehensive introduction to the GitHub platform, covering account and organization setup. Furthermore, you’ll discover the benefits of GitHub Actions’ reusability, including strategies for centralizing workflow designs for organization-wide applications. We will also delve into GitHub Apps, highlighting their role in centralizing access management and federating workflow usage to tailor the user experience. Finally, we will examine starter workflows and their potential to expedite your team’s onboarding process, ensuring a quicker start to your projects.

This part has the following chapters:

  • Chapter 1, An Overview of GitHub and GitHub Actions
  • Chapter 2, Exploring Workflows
  • Chapter 3, Deep Dive into Reusable Workflows and Composite Actions
  • Chapter 4, Workflow Personalization Using GitHub Apps
  • Chapter 5, Using Starter Workflows in Your Team
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Key benefits

  • Master GitHub events to foster a self-service mindset
  • Elevate your GitHub Actions knowledge to a whole new level through real-world examples
  • Learn how to integrate with popular cloud-based products within your workflows
  • Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Description

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.

What you will learn

Explore GitHub Actions' features for team and business settings Create reusable workflows, templates, and standardized processes to reduce overhead Get to grips with CI/CD integrations, code quality tools, and communication Understand self-hosted runners for greater control of resources and settings Discover tools to optimize GitHub Actions and manage resources efficiently Work through examples to enhance projects, teamwork, and productivity

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Publication date : Mar 22, 2024
Length 490 pages
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Table of Contents

22 Chapters
Preface Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 1:Centralized Workflows to Assist with Governance Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 1: An Overview of GitHub and GitHub Actions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2: Exploring Workflows Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 3: Deep Dive into Reusable Workflows and Composite Actions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 4: Workflow Personalization Using GitHub Apps Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 5: Utilizing Starter Workflows in Your Team Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 2: Implementing Advanced Patterns within Actions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 6: Using HashiCorp Vault in GitHub Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 7: Deploying to Azure Using OpenID Connect Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 8: Working with Checks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 9: Annotating Code with Actions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 10: Advancing with Event-Driven Workflows Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 11: Setting Up Self-Hosted Runners Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 3: Best Practices, Patterns, Tricks, and Tips Toolkit Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 12: The Crawler Pattern Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 13: The Configuration Centralization Pattern Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 14: Using Remote Workflows to Kickstart Your Products Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 15: Housekeeping Tips for Your Organization Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 16: Handy Workflows for Managing Your Software Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Other Books You May Enjoy Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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