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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

Using HashiCorp Vault in GitHub

In this chapter, we will explore the integration of HashiCorp Vault, a powerful secrets management solution, with GitHub Actions. You’ll be guided through setting up a HashiCorp Vault in the cloud, authenticating it, and accessing resources securely using GitHub Actions. You will learn how to leverage the secrets stored in Vault to perform actions on pull requests while maintaining fine-grained role-based access control (RBAC) capabilities.

HashiCorp Cloud Vault is our chosen vault for this chapter, and if you’ve never heard of this product, it can be described as a secrets management product hosted on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform. We could have used Azure Key Vault, but what we cover in the next chapter for Azure will further extend upon OpenID Connect (OIDC) usage and will provide you with a strong foundational knowledge base to work from. As most other providers have adequate documentation to set up OIDC against them on the GitHub...

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