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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

Making bulk repository changes

Sometimes, making administrative modifications in GitHub can be unduly challenging, especially when managing branch protections, permissions, and repository features. Additionally, several minor adjustments should be straightforward but prove difficult or slow to do so through a UI. By harnessing the capabilities of actions and our scalability feature, we can devise methods to synchronize permissions across repositories or retrieve information swiftly.

This section will review two workflows that everyone will use: adding permissions to all repositories you target and adding branch protection. Let’s look at both of these workflows in detail in the following sections.

Adding permissions to all repositories

We will leverage the topic query action in this segment to pinpoint the user-targeted repositories requiring modifications. While our current approach utilizes the topic query action, it’s worth noting that this method can be conveniently...

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