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GitHub Actions Cookbook

GitHub Actions Cookbook

By : Michael Kaufmann
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GitHub Actions Cookbook

GitHub Actions Cookbook

4.8 (5)
By: Michael Kaufmann

Overview of this book

Say goodbye to tedious tasks! GitHub Actions is a powerful workflow engine that automates everything in the GitHub ecosystem, letting you focus on what matters most. This book explains the GitHub Actions workflow syntax, the different kinds of actions, and how GitHub-hosted and self-hosted workflow runners work. You’ll get tips on how to author and debug GitHub Actions and workflows with Visual Studio Code (VS Code), run them locally, and leverage the power of GitHub Copilot. The book uses hands-on examples to walk you through real-world use cases that will help you automate the entire release process. You’ll cover everything, from automating the generation of release notes to building and testing your software and deploying securely to Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Google Cloud using OpenID Connect (OIDC), secrets, variables, environments, and approval checks. The book goes beyond CI/CD by demonstrating recipes to execute IssueOps and automate other repetitive tasks using the GitHub CLI, GitHub APIs and SDKs, and GitHub Token. You’ll learn how to build your own actions and reusable workflows to share building blocks with the community or within your organization. By the end of this GitHub book, you'll have gained the skills you need to automate tasks and work with remarkable efficiency and agility.
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Using OIDC to securely deploy to any cloud

In this recipe, we will set up our Kubernetes cluster in Azure, and we will configure OIDC in Azure to deploy to the cluster without using stored secrets.

Getting ready…

Make sure you have a PAT with at least read access to packages.

If you are experienced in Azure and you have the Azure CLI (https://docs.microsoft.com/cli/azure/install-azure-cli?view=azure-cli-latest) installed locally, then you can work from there. If you are new to Azure or you don’t have the CLI installed, just use Azure Cloud Shell at https://shell.azure.com.

Set the PAT token as an environment variable:

$ export GHCR_PAT=<YOUR_PAT_TOKEN>

The token will be used by Kubernetes to read from the GitHub Package Registry. Open the script setup-azure.sh and adjust the location variable at the top of the file to the Azure region of your choice. You can get a list of regions using az account list-locations -o table. Commit and push your changes...

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