Book description
Authored by a Microsoft Regional Director, this book shows you how to leverage the power of the community-driven GitHub Actions workflow platform to automate repetitive engineering tasks
Key Features
- Automate CI/CD workflows and deploy securely to cloud providers like Azure, AWS, or GCP using OpenID
- Create your own custom actions with Docker, JavaScript programming, or shell scripts and share them with others
- Discover ways to automate complex scenarios beyond the basic ones documented in GitHub
Book Description
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.
What you will learn
- Author and debug GitHub Actions workflows with VS Code and Copilot
- Run your workflows on GitHub-provided VMs (Linux, Windows, and macOS) or host your own runners in your infrastructure
- Understand how to secure your workflows with GitHub Actions
- Boost your productivity by automating workflows using GitHub's powerful tools, such as the CLI, APIs, SDKs, and access tokens
- Deploy to any cloud and platform in a secure and reliable way with staged or ring-based deployments
Who this book is for
This book is for anyone looking for a practical approach to learning GitHub Actions, regardless of their experience level. Whether you're a software developer, a DevOps engineer, anyone who has already experimented with Actions, or someone completely new to CI/CD tools like Jenkins or Azure Pipelines, you’ll find expert insights in this book. Basic knowledge of using Git and command lines is a must.
Table of contents
- GitHub Actions Cookbook
- Contributors
- About the author
- About the reviewers
- Preface
- Chapter 1: GitHub Actions Workflows
- Chapter 2: Authoring and Debugging Workflows
- Chapter 3: Building GitHub Actions
- Chapter 4: The Workflow Runtime
- Chapter 5: Automate Tasks in GitHub with GitHub Actions
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Chapter 6: Build and Validate Your Code
- Technical requirements
- Building and testing your code
- Building different versions using a matrix
- Informing the user on details of your build and test results
- Finding security vulnerabilities with CodeQL
- Creating a release and publishing the package
- Versioning your packages
- Generating and using SBOMs
- Using caching in workflows
- Chapter 7: Release Your Software with GitHub Actions
- Index
- Other Books You May Enjoy
Product information
- Title: GitHub Actions Cookbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2024
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781835468944
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