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Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions

Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions

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Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions

Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions

4.4 (13)
By: Heller

Overview of this book

GitHub Actions is one of the most popular products that enables you to automate development tasks and improve your software development workflow. Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions uses real-world examples to help you automate everyday tasks and use your resources efficiently. This book takes a practical approach to helping you develop the skills needed to create complex YAML files to automate your daily tasks. You'll learn how to find and use existing workflows, allowing you to get started with GitHub Actions right away. Moving on, you'll discover complex concepts and practices such as self-hosted runners and writing workflow files that leverage other platforms such as Docker as well as programming languages such as Java and JavaScript. As you advance, you'll be able to write your own JavaScript, Docker, and composite run steps actions, and publish them in GitHub Marketplace! You'll also find instructions to migrate your existing CI/CD workflows into GitHub Actions from platforms like Travis CI and GitLab. Finally, you'll explore tools that'll help you stay informed of additions to GitHub Actions along with finding technical support and staying engaged with the community. By the end of this GitHub book, you'll have developed the skills and experience needed to build and maintain your own CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Section 1:Introduction and Overview of Technologies Used with GitHub Actions
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Section 2: Advanced Concepts and Hands-On Exercises to Create Actions
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Section 3: Customizing Existing Actions, Migrations, and the Future of GitHub Actions

Reviewing the webhook events that trigger workflows

In Chapter 2, Deep Diving into GitHub Actions, you learned about scheduled events and manual events, but webhook events were only covered briefly. Although this section will not cover a comprehensive list of all webhook events that can trigger a workflow, you will learn more about these events and see some examples that can help you create your own workflow.

Important note

To see the complete list of webhook events that trigger workflows, visit https://docs.github.com/actions/reference/events-that-trigger-workflows#webhook-events.

Webhooks, in general, are HTTP callbacks that can be defined by a user and are triggered by specific events that happen on a platform. GitHub supports many different webhook events that you can consider when implementing CI/CD strategies using GitHub Actions. Those events can be used individually and in conjunction with manual and scheduled events. In addition to the webhook events that you have...

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