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GitHub Actions Cookbook

You're reading from   GitHub Actions Cookbook A practical guide to automating repetitive tasks and streamlining your development process

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835468944
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael Kaufmann Michael Kaufmann
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: GitHub Actions Workflows FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 2: Authoring and Debugging Workflows 3. Chapter 3: Building GitHub Actions 4. Chapter 4: The Workflow Runtime 5. Chapter 5: Automate Tasks in GitHub with GitHub Actions 6. Chapter 6: Build and Validate Your Code 7. Chapter 7: Release Your Software with GitHub Actions 8. Index 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building GitHub Actions

Now that you’ve learned how to author workflows and already used some actions from the marketplace, it is time to fully understand what actions are and how they work. In this chapter, I will explain the different types of actions and we will cover the following recipes so that you know how to write actions yourself:

  • Creating a Docker container action
  • Adding output parameters and using job summaries
  • Creating a TypeScript action
  • Creating a composite action
  • Sharing actions to the marketplace
  • Best practices for developing custom actions

You will learn how to pass in parameters to actions and use output parameters in subsequent workflow steps. You will also learn how to write to the workflow log and annotate changes in files from within the action and how to create rich job summaries.

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