Learning GitHub Actions: Automation and Integration of CI/CD with GitHub
by: Brent Laster (Author)
Publisher finelybook 出版社: O’Reilly Media; (September 26, 2023)
Language 语言: English
Print Length 页数: 411 pages
ISBN-10: 109813107X
ISBN-13: 9781098131074
Book Description
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 author, trainer, and DevOps director Brent Laster explains everything you need to know about using and getting value from GitHub Actions. You’ll learn what actions and workflows are and how they can 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 can leverage them to provide the functionality and features needed in today’s complex pipelines and software development processes. You’ll learn how to design and implement automated workflows that respond to common events like pushes, pull requests, and review updates. You’ll understand how to use the components of the GitHub Actions platform to gain maximum automation and benefit.
With this book, you will:
Learn what GitHub Actions are, the various 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
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Oreilly
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Learning GitHub Actions: Automation and Integration of CI/CD with GitHub
From the Preface
Intended Audience
This book is for anyone who is trying to learn more about GitHub Actions. If you’re picking this book up, you should already have a basic knowledge of Git and GitHub, and now you’re trying to figure out how to implement Actions into your workflow. You likely have some experience with solutions like Jenkins, Travis CI, and so on, and the automation platform and framework of GitHub Actions may improve your software development lifecycle process.
You might be a software developer, SRE, DevOps engineer, or something else entirely, but it is my hope that the sections outlined above will provide a complete learning solution for GitHub Actions for all readers. Here are some audiences that I had in mind while writing it and that I think can benefit from it:
Those who are new (or newish) to GitHub and looking to understand how the automation component of it works
Those who already understand the concepts and flow of GitHub Actions and want or need assistance with actually implementing the code and syntax for workflows
Those who want to understand and evaluate GitHub Actions as a potential CI/CD/automation target
Those who already have some experience with GitHub Actions and want to leverage it more fully for custom purposes
Those who are working on implementing or have implemented GitHub Actions and need to make sure they do it securely
Those who are responsible for, or want to, roll out GitHub Actions across a department, organization, or unit
Those who are experienced GitHub users and want to migrate their current CI/CD solutions to GitHub Actions
If one of these fits your use case, I hope the book will provide you with the value you’re looking for. If you read it and have the opportunity, feedback is always welcome through reviews or interactions at future conferences or training venues.
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