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

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

Eric Chapman

Ebook
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.
  • 1. An Overview of GitHub and GitHub Actions
  • 2. Exploring Workflows
  • 3. Deep Dive into Reusable Workflows and Composite Actions
  • 4. Workflow Personalization Using GitHub Apps
  • 5. Utilizing Starter Workflows in Your Team
  • 6. Using HashiCorp Vault in GitHub
  • 7. Deploying to Azure Using OpenID Connect
  • 8. Working with Checks
  • 9. Annotating Code with Actions
  • 10. Advancing with Event-Driven Workflows
  • 11. Setting Up Self-Hosted Runners
  • 12. The Crawler Pattern
  • 13. The Configuration Centralization Pattern
  • 14. Using Remote Workflows to Kickstart Your Products
  • 15. Housekeeping Tips for Your Organization
  • 16. Handy Workflows for Managing Your Software
  • Title: Mastering GitHub Actions. Advance your automation skills with the latest techniques for software integration and deployment
  • Author: Eric Chapman
  • Original title: Mastering GitHub Actions. Advance your automation skills with the latest techniques for software integration and deployment
  • ISBN: 9781805123309, 9781805123309
  • Date of issue: 2024-03-22
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3vco
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing