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Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions

Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions

By : Heller
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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

Managing the workflow run

Now that you have learned how to create workflow files to trigger workflow runs, it is important to learn how you can manage them. Understanding how to view the workflow run logs, as well as rerun and cancel a workflow, will help you prepare to create test workflow runs, ensure they run as needed, and monitor them. This section will also guide you through debugging failed runs in case you need to quickly troubleshoot them and get back on track.

Visualizing a workflow run

Visual representations of script runs aren't always available on many platforms. GitHub, however, provides a real-time graph that allows you to monitor the progress of your workflow run.

To access the workflow visualization graph, click on the Actions tab within your repository:

Figure 3.7 – Workflow run visualization graph

This page shows all the workflows that have run within your repository. The preceding screenshot shows results that are...

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