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Mastering GitHub Actions

You're reading from   Mastering GitHub Actions Advance your automation skills with the latest techniques for software integration and deployment

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805128625
Length 490 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Eric Chapman Eric Chapman
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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 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Templates and reusable workflow repositories

GitHub’s reusable workflows and templates allow you to create and share standardized configurations and workflows across multiple repositories within an organization. They promote best practices, consistency, and efficiency in your projects by providing pre-defined templates for common tasks and scenarios. Let’s look at each feature in more detail in the following sections.

Reusable workflows

Reusable workflows are a GitHub Actions feature that enables you to create a workflow in one repository and use it as a reference in other repositories. This eliminates the need to duplicate workflow configurations across multiple repositories, making maintaining and updating workflows easier.

To create a reusable workflow, you define a workflow with the necessary steps and configuration in one repository, and then use the uses keyword in other repositories to reference that workflow. When a workflow run is triggered in the referencing...

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