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Mastering GitHub Actions

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Product type Book

Published in Mar 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805128625

Pages 490 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Eric Chapman

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Centralized Workflows to Assist with Governance

2. Chapter 1: An Overview of GitHub and GitHub Actions

3. Chapter 2: Exploring Workflows

4. Chapter 3: Deep Dive into Reusable Workflows and Composite Actions

5. Chapter 4: Workflow Personalization Using GitHub Apps

6. Chapter 5: Utilizing Starter Workflows in Your Team

7. Part 2: Implementing Advanced Patterns within Actions

8. Chapter 6: Using HashiCorp Vault in GitHub

9. Chapter 7: Deploying to Azure Using OpenID Connect

10. Chapter 8: Working with Checks

11. Chapter 9: Annotating Code with Actions

12. Chapter 10: Advancing with Event-Driven Workflows

13. Chapter 11: Setting Up Self-Hosted Runners

14. Part 3: Best Practices, Patterns, Tricks, and Tips Toolkit

15. Chapter 12: The Crawler Pattern

16. Chapter 13: The Configuration Centralization Pattern

17. Chapter 14: Using Remote Workflows to Kickstart Your Products

18. Chapter 15: Housekeeping Tips for Your Organization

19. Chapter 16: Handy Workflows for Managing Your Software

20. Index

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21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

To follow along with the hands-on material in this chapter, you must follow the steps in the previous chapter or access the resources from that chapter if anything is ambiguous to you.

In this chapter, we’ll also need a new public repository that can be initialized with a README file. It should be named RichChecks and used to host the custom action we’ll create in this chapter.

We will be stepping through the process of creating everything else in this chapter.

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Authors (1)

Eric Chapman

Eric Chapman holds the position of Senior Delivery and Engineering Manager at a leading retailer in home improvement and trade in Australia and New Zealand. He primarily oversees integration, encompassing platforms such as API Gateway, EventMesh, authorization systems, developer portals, and extract, transform and load (ETL) platforms. Eric leads a team with a broad range of responsibilities and skills, overseeing all business areas. Previously, Eric and his team were instrumental in designing and developing an in-house point-of-sale system. This singular application accommodated four countries' tax and auditing requirements, supported multiple payment processing gateways, and incorporated a range of unique market-leading features.

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