Hands-on GitHub Actions: Implement CI/CD with GitHub Action Workflows for Your Applications

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C. Chandrasekara, P. HerathHands-on GitHub Actionshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6464-5_3

3. Variables

Chaminda Chandrasekara¹   and Pushpa Herath²

(1)

Dedigamuwa, Sri Lanka

(2)

Hanguranketha, Sri Lanka

 

In any platform or tool facilitating the implementation of CI/CD, it is essential to have a mechanism to configure variables in the pipelines, depending on the different scopes of the pipeline implementation. This chapter explores the options for setting up GitHub Actions variables, how to scope them, naming conventions for variables, and the default variables in workflows.

Defining and Using Variables

In GitHub Actions, you can define custom variables in the ...