GitHub Actions Cookbook
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GitHub Actions Cookbook

A practical guide to automating repetitive tasks and streamlining your development process

About the 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.

About the Author

Packt Publishing Ltd
Packt Publishing Ltd

Packt Publishing are an established global technical learning content provider, founded in Birmingham, UK with over twenty years’ experience in delivering premium rich content from ground-breaking authors on a wide range of emerging and popular technologies. Our titles have global relevance our multimedia portfolio includes over 9,000 books, e-books, audiobooks and video courses. www.packtpub.com

Table of Contents

  1. GitHub Actions Workflows
  2. Authoring and Debugging Workflows
  3. Building GitHub Actions
  4. The Workflow Runtime
  5. Automate Tasks in GitHub with GitHub Actions
  6. Building and Validating Your Code
  7. Release Your Software with GitHub Actions

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This book is published on Leanpub by Packt Publishing Ltd

Packt Publishing are an established global technical learning content provider, founded in Birmingham, UK with over twenty years’ experience in delivering premium rich content from ground-breaking authors on a wide range of emerging and popular technologies. Our titles have global relevance our multimedia portfolio includes over 9,000 books, e-books, audiobooks and video courses. www.packtpub.com

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