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

Chapman, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1805128620 ISBN 13: 9781805128625

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

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 Features

• Become a pro at using GitHub events to enable a self-service mindset
• Master/Upskill your GitHub Actions knowledge to a whole new level with real-world examples
• Learn how to integrate with popular cloud based products within your workflows

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.

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 learn

• Explore GitHub Actions' features for team and business settings
• Craft reusable workflows, templates, standardize processes, reduce overhead
• Explore CI/CD integrations, code quality tools and communication
• Understand self-hosted runners: greater control on resources and settings
• Discover tools to optimize GitHub Actions, manage resources and efficiency
• Leverage examples to enhance projects, teamwork and productivity

Who 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 Contents

1. Github Team vs Enterprise vs Private - the capability difference
2. Exploring Workflows
3. Deep dive into reusable workflows and composite actions
4. Using GitHub apps for OAuth Authentication
5. Utilising Starter workflows in your team
6. Using an external secrets store in Github
7. Deploying Azure resources using OpenID Connect
8. Creating check suites
9. Annotating code during pull requests using workflows
10. Invoking actions off events in issues and pull requests
11. Creating a Github App
12. The Crawler pattern
13. The configuration centralisation pattern
14. Using remote workflows to kickstart your product
15. Housekeeping tips for your github team org
16. Handy workflows for managing your software

About this title

About the Author

Eric Chapman, a software engineer with a self-driven background, began his tech journey at Bunnings Group. There, he evolved from a software engineer to a lead role, showcasing proficiency and leadership while managing projects internationally. This included software operations across four nations for in-house built back-of-office and point-of-sale software.

Later, as a Principal Engineer, he contributed significantly to the design and development of the greenfields API platform, which later expanded to cover other integration portfolios. His dedication and expertise paved the way for his current position as an Engineering Manager, focusing on integration portfolios.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1805128620
• ISBN 13: 9781805128625
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 490