GitHub Actions Cookbook: A practical guide to automating repetitive tasks and streamlining your development process

Michael Kaufmann

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Paperback Apr 2024 250 pages 1st Edition

Michael Kaufmann

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Automate CI/CD workflows and deploy securely to cloud providers like Azure, AWS, or GCP using OpenID
Create your own custom actions with Docker, JavaScript programming, or shell scripts and share them with others
Discover ways to automate complex scenarios beyond the basic ones documented in GitHub

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Say goodbye to tedious tasks! GitHub Actions is a powerful workflow engine that automates everything in the GitHub ecosystem, letting you focus on what matters most. This book explains the GitHub Actions workflow syntax, the different kinds of actions, and how GitHub-hosted and self-hosted workflow runners work. You’ll get tips on how to author and debug GitHub Actions and workflows with Visual Studio Code (VS Code), run them locally, and leverage the power of GitHub Copilot. The book uses hands-on examples to walk you through real-world use cases that will help you automate the entire release process. You’ll cover everything, from automating the generation of release notes to building and testing your software and deploying securely to Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Google Cloud using OpenID Connect (OIDC), secrets, variables, environments, and approval checks. The book goes beyond CI/CD by demonstrating recipes to execute IssueOps and automate other repetitive tasks using the GitHub CLI, GitHub APIs and SDKs, and GitHub Token. You’ll learn how to build your own actions and reusable workflows to share building blocks with the community or within your organization. By the end of this GitHub book, you'll have gained the skills you need to automate tasks and work with remarkable efficiency and agility.

Who is this book for?

This book is for anyone looking for a practical approach to learning GitHub Actions, regardless of their experience level. Whether you're a software developer, a DevOps engineer, anyone who has already experimented with Actions, or someone completely new to CI/CD tools like Jenkins or Azure Pipelines, you’ll find expert insights in this book. Basic knowledge of using Git and command lines is a must.

What you will learn

Author and debug GitHub Actions workflows with VS Code and Copilot
Run your workflows on GitHub-provided VMs (Linux, Windows, and macOS) or host your own runners in your infrastructure
Understand how to secure your workflows with GitHub Actions
Boost your productivity by automating workflows using GitHub's powerful tools, such as the CLI, APIs, SDKs, and access tokens
Deploy to any cloud and platform in a secure and reliable way with staged or ring-based deployments

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Olena May 24, 2024

Technical books can be tough without good examples, but this book does a great job of showing concepts visually. The clear explanations are supported by many screenshots, diagrams, images, and code snippets, which help a lot.Whether you're new to GitHub or have some experience, you'll find the instructions clear and helpful. The introductory chapters are especially good for beginners, providing a strong base before getting into GitHub Actions workflows."GitHub Actions Cookbook" is a great resource for developers wanting to improve their automation skills. Its detailed and visually supported content makes it a must-read for anyone looking to streamline their development process with GitHub Actions. I highly recommend it to both new and experienced developers.

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Amazon Customer May 23, 2024

GitHub Actions is a bit daunting to get started with - but it doesn't have to be. The book is excellent. I love how it first concisely shows you how to do things, then fills you in on some of the "whys" later if you want more of the theory or understanding.The examples are easy to understand and the GitHub repo provides great examples that make it easy to actually implement workflows.This will help me hugely in my job and I'm already recommending it to other development teams just starting out with GitHub Actions workflows.

Wes MacDonald May 23, 2024

This is one of my favourite book formats, lots of examples (recipes) to get you really tuned into GitHub Actions and all of its possibilities. If you want to be productive (automate everything) or just want to explore the possible with GitHub Actions this book will more than deliver on that.

Hossein Jan 05, 2025

I am not in a position to be fully qualified for rating this book, because this book seems to be suitable for devops engineerings, but I am a software developer. But even from my perspective, the book is very detailed and easy enough to get up and running on using GitHub Actions. My goal to reading this book was to run configuration, build and packaging steps of my projects, and finally create a release on my GitHub repositories. Well, I have done it but this book goes way more than that and can keep a devops engineer pretty busy for days. I have never studied another book on this topic so I cannot compare this book with another, but I feel confident enough now to start reading the official documentations on GitHub. In general, I recommend it, or at least I recommend you to read the parts of the book you need.

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N. McA Oct 08, 2024

The content and the style it has been written is great for me, very useful and I'm already learning things I didn't know from the first few pages.Misses a star for me though, the print quality of the book isn't really decent for £30. The back page says it's printed in Great Britain by Amazon, if this is a legit copy? The pages are photocopier paper, and screenshots are for the most part quite blurry. Not a great print

GitHub Actions Cookbook: A practical guide to automating repetitive tasks and streamlining your development process

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