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Mastering GitHub Actions

Mastering GitHub Actions

By : Eric Chapman
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Mastering GitHub Actions

Mastering GitHub Actions

4.5 (6)
By: Eric Chapman

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Part 1:Centralized Workflows to Assist with Governance
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Part 2: Implementing Advanced Patterns within Actions
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Part 3: Best Practices, Patterns, Tricks, and Tips Toolkit

Understanding commit statuses

Commit statuses provide a way to inform users about the state of a particular commit, especially in the context of CI/CD. On GitHub, these statuses are often linked with various checks from third-party tools or services such as CI/CD systems, linting tools, and more. With the advent of GitHub Actions, this mechanism has become increasingly important. Let’s look at it now in more detail.

What are commit statuses?

At its core, a commit status is a visual indicator tied to a specific commit in a repository. It gives information about external processes connected to that commit, such as build processes, tests, or code analyses. For instance, if you’ve set up a CI system, the status can indicate whether the commit has passed all tests or if issues need addressing.

When used, they are visible in two places within GitHub:

  • Pull Request Interface: When you open a pull request, you’ll notice status indicators next to each commit...

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