GitHub Actions Cookbook: A practical guide to automating repetitive tasks and streamlining your development process 1st Edition

Authored by a Microsoft Regional Director, this book shows you how to leverage the power of the community-driven GitHub Actions workflow platform to automate repetitive engineering tasks

Key Features

• 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

Book Description

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.