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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

Enabling JWT authentication in HashiCorp

Enabling JWT is simple; configuring it is a little trickier. It’s simple to enable using the UI, but you need API or CLI calls to configure it securely. So, we’re going to use each of them in this process so you get a little bit of experience with each of the methods available.

There is also official GitHub documentation for this here: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/deployment/security-hardening-your-deployments/configuring-openid-connect-in-hashicorp-vault. It gives a very basic example, but it’s not up to date nor is it very secure, so we’ll use parts of it and expand on it further.

Let’s just quickly go over what we’re configuring in this section. We will configure our instance to allow JWT to be enabled as a form of authentication and for the authentication to be set up to understand how to verify GitHub tokens.

Enabling JWT for GitHub-produced tokens

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