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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

Workflow Personalization Using GitHub Apps

In today’s digital landscape, authentication and secure access are crucial aspects of any application or platform. GitHub Apps are a powerful solution for authenticating service accounts or common activities within the GitHub ecosystem. By leveraging GitHub Apps, developers can enhance their applications’ security, functionality, and developer experience.

These are powerful tools that allow developers to build custom integrations with the GitHub platform. They have their own identity and permissions and can perform various actions on repositories and organizations, such as creating issues, commenting on pull requests, and triggering workflows. GitHub Apps are based on the principles of OAuth 2.0, providing a secure way to access and interact with GitHub’s APIs.

Typically, developing a GitHub App involves creating a web application that interacts with GitHub’s APIs and receives webhook events from GitHub. In...

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