Mastering Github Actions: Advance your automation skills to explore advanced techniques and proven patterns for today

Unlock your team's potential through new capabilities and explore all there is to know about GitHub actions to become a pro in no time
Key Features

• Become a pro at using GitHub events to enable a self-service mindset
• Master/Upskill your GitHub Actions knowledge to a whole new level with real-world examples
• Learn how to integrate with popular cloud based products within your workflows

Book Description
Navigating GitHub Actions often leaves developers grappling with inefficiencies and collaboration bottlenecks. "Mastering GitHub Actions" offers solutions to these challenges, ensuring smoother software development.
Covering 16 extensive chapters, this book demystifies GitHub Actions. Dive deep into its vast capabilities, from team and enterprise features to organization defaults, self-hosted runners, and monitoring tools. Discover how to craft reusable workflows, design bespoke templates, publish an action, incorporate external services, and introduce enhanced security measures. Through hands-on examples, gain best-practice insights for team-based GitHub Actions, and strategies for maximizing organization accounts.
By the end, whether a software engineer or a DevOps guru, you'll be adept at amplifying productivity and leveraging automation's might. Let Mastering GitHub Actions be your guide to refining your development process.
What you will learn

• Explore GitHub Actions' features for team and business settings
• Craft reusable workflows, templates, standardize processes, reduce overhead
• Explore CI/CD integrations, code quality tools and communication
• Understand self-hosted runners: greater control on resources and settings
• Discover tools to optimize GitHub Actions, manage resources and efficiency
• Leverage examples to enhance projects, teamwork and productivity

Who this book is for
This book is for developers interested in GitHub Actions with a foundation in CI/CD, code quality tools, and team communication. DevOps engineers, system administrators, software developers, IT specialists, automation aficionados, and university students focused on software integration and deployment will find value in this book. Those familiar with GitHub's ecosystem will especially benefit from its content.
Table of Contents

• Github Team vs Enterprise vs Private - the capability difference
• Exploring Workflows
• Deep dive into reusable workflows and composite actions
• Using GitHub apps for OAuth Authentication
• Utilising Starter workflows in your team
• Using an external secrets store in Github
• Deploying Azure resources using OpenID Connect
• Creating check suites
• Annotating code during pull requests using workflows
• Invoking actions off events in issues and pull requests
• Creating a Github App
• The Crawler pattern
• The configuration centralisation pattern
• Using remote workflows to kickstart your product
• Housekeeping tips for your github team org
• Handy workflows for managing your software