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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

Hosting the results using GitHub Pages

In this section, we’ll build a workflow to host a GitHub page to demonstrate our collected data. At its core, GitHub Pages is a hosting service provided by GitHub that allows users to publish web content directly from their repositories. It’s designed to host static websites, meaning it can serve HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files, but it doesn’t support server-side code such as PHP or Python. This makes it an ideal choice for personal, project, or documentation websites.

GitHub Pages offers two primary methods for deploying your website:

  • Classic deployment: This traditional approach involves pushing your static files to a specific branch in your repository. GitHub Pages automatically detects these files and publishes them as a website. It’s straightforward and requires minimal setup, making it a favorite among users who prefer simplicity.
  • Actions deployment: The newer method leverages GitHub Actions, which...

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