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Mastering GitHub Actions

Mastering GitHub Actions

By : Eric Chapman
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Mastering GitHub Actions

Mastering GitHub Actions

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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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Summary

Closing off this chapter, we’ve covered key strategies for quickly and effectively launching projects in today’s rapid software development landscape. The primary focus has been on the GitHub repository_dispatch event, an essential tool for initiating and onboarding projects quickly and efficiently.

We delved into a template-based approach for kickstarting new products within an organization. This method is more than just a way to start projects; it offers the flexibility to include additional tools as needed, making it a versatile solution for various project requirements. We then created a kickstarter workflow to demonstrate how to do this. We also briefly explored the role of internal developer portals and other related use cases, highlighting their contribution to a more efficient project onboarding process.

In the next chapter, we’ll look over housekeeping tips for your organization and how we can make things easier to find through further extensions...

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