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Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805128625

Length 490 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

GitHub

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Eric Chapman

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Centralized Workflows to Assist with Governance FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: An Overview of GitHub and GitHub Actions

3. Chapter 2: Exploring Workflows

4. Chapter 3: Deep Dive into Reusable Workflows and Composite Actions

5. Chapter 4: Workflow Personalization Using GitHub Apps

6. Chapter 5: Utilizing Starter Workflows in Your Team

7. Part 2: Implementing Advanced Patterns within Actions

8. Chapter 6: Using HashiCorp Vault in GitHub

9. Chapter 7: Deploying to Azure Using OpenID Connect

10. Chapter 8: Working with Checks

11. Chapter 9: Annotating Code with Actions

12. Chapter 10: Advancing with Event-Driven Workflows

13. Chapter 11: Setting Up Self-Hosted Runners

14. Part 3: Best Practices, Patterns, Tricks, and Tips Toolkit

15. Chapter 12: The Crawler Pattern

16. Chapter 13: The Configuration Centralization Pattern

17. Chapter 14: Using Remote Workflows to Kickstart Your Products

18. Chapter 15: Housekeeping Tips for Your Organization

19. Chapter 16: Handy Workflows for Managing Your Software

20. Index

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Part 2: Implementing Advanced Patterns within Actions

In this part, we concentrate on the integration of an external secret store to securely manage secrets utilized in workflows, leveraging the insights gained from this setup to facilitate deployments, including the deployment of a Node.js application to the Azure cloud using GitHub Actions. Additionally, we explore the creation of custom checks and code annotation during pull requests. The section concludes by examining event handling within issues with a demonstration of a ChatGPT-powered chatbot and finishes with the configuration of self-hosted runners across diverse environments.

This part has the following chapters: