Free Download Mastering Github Actions: Advance your automation skills to explore advanced techniques and proven patterns for today by Eric Chapman
English | April 9, 2024 | ISBN: 1805128620 | 451 pages | MOBI | 19 Mb
Unlock your team’s potential through new capabilities and explore all there is to know about GitHub actions to become a pro in no time
Key FeaturesBecome a pro at using GitHub events to enable a self-service mindsetMaster/Upskill your GitHub Actions knowledge to a whole new level with real-world examplesLearn how to integrate with popular cloud based products within your workflowsBook 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.
Covering 16 extensive chapters, this book demystifies GitHub Actions. Dive deep into its vast capabilities, from team and enterprise features to organization defaults, self-hosted runners, and monitoring tools. Discover how to craft reusable workflows, design bespoke templates, publish an action, incorporate external services, and introduce enhanced security measures. Through hands-on examples, gain best-practice insights for team-based GitHub Actions, and strategies for maximizing organization accounts.
By the end, whether a software engineer or a DevOps guru, you’ll be adept at amplifying productivity and leveraging automation’s might. Let Mastering GitHub Actions be your guide to refining your development process.
What you will learnExplore GitHub Actions’ features for team and business settingsCraft reusable workflows, templates, standardize processes, reduce overheadExplore CI/CD integrations, code quality tools and communicationUnderstand self-hosted runners: greater control on resources and settingsDiscover tools to optimize GitHub Actions, manage resources and efficiencyLeverage examples to enhance projects, teamwork and productivityWho this book is for
This book is for developers interested in GitHub Actions with a foundation in CI/CD, code quality tools, and team communication. DevOps engineers, system administrators, software developers, IT specialists, automation aficionados, and university students focused on software integration and deployment will find value in this book. Those familiar with GitHub’s ecosystem will especially benefit from its content.
Table of ContentsGithub Team vs Enterprise vs Private – the capability differenceExploring WorkflowsDeep dive into reusable workflows and composite actionsUsing GitHub apps for OAuth AuthenticationUtilising Starter workflows in your teamUsing an external secrets store in GithubDeploying Azure resources using OpenID ConnectCreating check suitesAnnotating code during pull requests using workflowsInvoking actions off events in issues and pull requestsCreating a Github AppThe Crawler patternThe configuration centralisation patternUsing remote workflows to kickstart your productHousekeeping tips for your github team orgHandy workflows for managing your software