Learning GitHub Actions: Automation and Integration of CI/CD with GitHub

Automate your software development processes with GitHub Actions, the continuous integration and continuous delivery platform that integrates seamlessly with GitHub. With this practical book, open source writer, trainer, and DevOps director Brent Laster explains everything you want to know about the usage of and getting value from GitHub Actions. You’ll be able to learn what actions and workflows are and how they are able to be used, created, and incorporated into your processes to simplify, standardize, and automate your work in GitHub.

This book explains the platform, components, use cases, implementation, and integration points of actions, so you’ll be able to leverage them to provide the functionality and features needed in today’s complex pipelines and software development processes. You’ll be able to learn to design and implement automated workflows that respond to common events like pushes, pull requests, and review updates. You’ll be able to be mindful how to use the components of the GitHub Actions platform to gain maximum automation and benefit.

With this book, you’ll:

• Learn what GitHub Actions are, the quite a lot of use cases for them, and how to incorporate them into your processes
• Understand GitHub Actions’ structure, syntax, and semantics
• Automate processes and implement functionality
• Create your own custom actions with Docker, JavaScript, or shell approaches
• Troubleshoot and debug workflows that use actions
• Combine actions with GitHub APIs and other integration options
• Identify ways to securely implement workflows with GitHub Actions
• Understand how GitHub Actions compares to other options