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Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions

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Product type Book

Published in Nov 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800560406

Pages 216 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Concepts

Continuous Integration

Author (1):

Priscila Heller

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1:Introduction and Overview of Technologies Used with GitHub Actions

2. Chapter 1: Learning the Foundations for GitHub Actions

3. Chapter 2: Deep Diving into GitHub Actions

4. Section 2: Advanced Concepts and Hands-On Exercises to Create Actions

5. Chapter 3: A Closer Look at Workflows

6. Chapter 4: Working with Self-Hosted Runners

7. Chapter 5: Writing Your Own Actions

8. Chapter 6: Marketplace – Finding Existing Actions and Publishing Your Own

9. Section 3: Customizing Existing Actions, Migrations, and the Future of GitHub Actions

10. Chapter 7: Migrations

11. Chapter 8: Contributing to the Community and Finding Help

12. Chapter 9: The Future of GitHub Actions

13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Configuring a job that runs on a self-hosted runner

Similarly to GitHub-hosted runners, self-hosted runners use the runs-on key within a workflow file. Therefore, you will use a line like the following one in your .yml file:

runs-on: [self-hosted, macOS, dev-runner]

Self-hosted runners automatically receive a self-hosted label, as well as a label to indicate the operating system and architecture you selected when you were creating a self-hosted runner on your repository's Settings page. In the previous example, macOS is the label automatically generated for the operating system. An architecture label is not being used in this case. Note how dev-runner, a label created using the ./config.sh script, was also used.

The following example is of a workflow used in Chapter 3, A Closer Look at Workflows, to translate issues and issue comments that were written in a language different from English, and this workflow ran on a GitHub-hosted runner. The following code snippet shows...

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Authors (1)

Priscila Heller

Priscila Heller was born and raised in Brazil, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in Journalism. She moved to the United States in 2011, where she has been living ever since. After working in many different fields, she found a career opportunity in Tech, and went back to school to pursue a degree in Information System Technology. In 2016 Priscila joined GitHub as an Enterprise Support Agent. Over the years she was promoted a few times, and today she is a Senior Manager of Premium Support. Priscila believes in the power of technology, education, and communication. She considers the democratization of knowledge and information to be invaluable for the cultural, social, economic, and scientific development of society and humanity.

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