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Mastering GitHub Actions

You're reading from  Mastering GitHub Actions

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 Eric Chapman
Profile icon 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 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating an organization account

This book will use an organization account to build workflows and automated processes. If you’ve been following this book, you should only have a personal account and need to create an organization account. This can be done from a web browser by following these steps:

  1. Navigate to https://github.com/account/organizations/new and ensure you have logged in to GitHub using your personal account beforehand. You’ll get a web page as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 1.3 – Creation of an organization account

Figure 1.3 – Creation of an organization account

  1. Provide an organization account name and contact email; if either of these is invalid, you’ll get an error message.
  2. Then select the My personal account option under “This organization belongs to”; validate that the account is correct.
  3. Upon completing the robot verification, you can invite others to join your organization on the next screen:
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