GitHub Actions in Action

Automate your build, test, and deploy pipelines using GitHub Actions!Continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines help you automate the software development process and maximize your team’s efficiency. GitHub Actions in Action teaches you to build real-world build, test, and deploy pipelines in GitHub Actions through hands-on labs and projects.In GitHub Actions in Action you will learn how to:Create and share GitHub Actions workflowsAutomate CI/CD workloads and other GitHub tasksSecure release pipelines with secrets, variables, and environmentsSupport compliance frameworksCreate safe and scalable self-hosted runnersWritten by three Microsoft MVPs and tech reviewed by a Staff DevOps Architect from GitHub, this book delivers the hardworking skills and advice you’ll need to be successful on the job. DevOps engineers will love GitHub Actions in Action’s coverage of reliable methods for Infrastructure-as-Code and automating cloud environments. You’ll follow an extended example application for selling tickets, taking it all the way from initial build to cloud deployment.Foreword by Scott Hanselman.About the technologyBelieve it or not, CI/CD can be simple! With GitHub Actions, you can automate your entire dev process using just the tools built into GitHub—no external frameworks or complex integrations required. GitHub Actions is secure, reliable, and best of all, easy. This book will get you started.About the bookGitHub Actions in Action teaches you how to build automated delivery pipelines in GitHub. You’ll start with simple examples that demonstrate workflow and action basics, and then you’ll dive into platform architecture, security, and workflow runtime details. As you go, you’ll build a full CI/CD pipeline, optimizing for compliance, performance, and costs. You’ll even create shareable actions for the GitHub marketplace.What's insideCreate and share GitHub Actions workflowsAutomate testing and other GitHub tasksSecure release pipelines with secrets, variables, and environmentsAbout the readerFor developers and DevOps engineers comfortable with GitHub.About the authorMichael Kaufmann is a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP. Rob Bos is an Azure and GitHub Trainer, a Microsoft MVP, a GitHub Star, and a LinkedIn Learning Instructor. Marcel de Vries is a CTO of Xebia Microsoft Services, Microsoft Regional Director, and MVP.The technical editor on this book was James Michael Gousset.Table of ContentsPart 11 Introduction to GitHub Actions2 Hands-on: My first Actions workflow3 Workflows4 GitHub ActionsPart 25 Runners6 Self-hosted runners7 Managing your self-hosted runnersPart 38 Continuous integration9 Continuous delivery10 Security11 Compliance12 Improving workflow performance and costs

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