Mastering GitHub Actions

Explore the full spectrum of GitHub Actions to unlock your team's potential and become a pro in no time

Key Features

• Master GitHub events to foster a self-service mindset
• Elevate your GitHub Actions knowledge to a whole new level through real-world examples
• Learn how to integrate with popular cloud-based products within your workflows
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Explore GitHub Actions' features for team and business settings
• Create reusable workflows, templates, and standardized processes to reduce overhead
• Get to grips with CI/CD integrations, code quality tools, and communication
• Understand self-hosted runners for greater control of resources and settings
• Discover tools to optimize GitHub Actions and manage resources efficiently
• Work through examples to enhance projects, teamwork, and productivity

Who this book is for

This book is for developers with a foundation in CI/CD, code quality tools, and team communication keen on exploring GitHub Actions. It's ideal for DevOps engineers, system administrators, software developers, IT specialists, automation aficionados, and university students focused on software integration and deployment. Those familiar with GitHub's ecosystem will find this content insightful.

Table of Contents

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