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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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DevOps

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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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 addition to this, you will also be required to have access to an email address to set up the HashiCorp Cloud Vault trial. It will be a 30-day trial, and by the end of this, you will have gained the skills to continue with the product or utilize another product at another vendor, such as Azure AD and Key Vault or GCP and secrets manager. Most of these will have a cost associated with them, and you should review the costs of each for your projected usage before enabling production.

In this chapter, we’ll need a new private repository named GHA.Private.Templates, and we’ll need to set it up for access to be used as a reusable workflow repository. This can be initialized with a README file for now.

We will be stepping through the process of creating everything...