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Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions: Automate software development workflows and seamlessly deploy your applications using GitHub Actions

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Build, test, and deploy code right from your GitHub repository by automating, customizing, and executing software development workflows with GitHub Actions


Key Features:

  • Enhance your CI/CD and DevOps workflows using GitHub Actions
  • Discover how to create custom GitHub Actions using Docker and JavaScript
  • Get up and running with building a CI/CD pipeline effectively


Book Description:

GitHub Actions is one of the most popular products that enables you to automate development tasks and improve your software development workflow. Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions uses real-world examples to help you automate everyday tasks and use your resources efficiently.


This book takes a practical approach to helping you develop the skills needed to create complex YAML files to automate your daily tasks. You'll learn how to find and use existing workflows, allowing you to get started with GitHub Actions right away. Moving on, you'll discover complex concepts and practices such as self-hosted runners and writing workflow files that leverage other platforms such as Docker as well as programming languages such as Java and JavaScript. As you advance, you'll be able to write your own JavaScript, Docker, and composite run steps actions, and publish them in GitHub Marketplace! You'll also find instructions to migrate your existing CI/CD workflows into GitHub Actions from platforms like Travis CI and GitLab. Finally, you'll explore tools that'll help you stay informed of additions to GitHub Actions along with finding technical support and staying engaged with the community.


By the end of this GitHub book, you'll have developed the skills and experience needed to build and maintain your own CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions.


What You Will Learn:

  • Get to grips with the basics of GitHub and the YAML syntax
  • Understand key concepts of GitHub Actions
  • Find out how to write actions for JavaScript and Docker environments
  • Discover how to create a self-hosted runner
  • Migrate from other continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms to GitHub Actions
  • Collaborate with the GitHub Actions community and find technical help to navigate technical difficulties
  • Publish your workflows in GitHub Marketplace


Who this book is for:

This book is for anyone involved in the software development life cycle, for those looking to learn about GitHub Actions and what can be accomplished, and for those who want to develop a new skill to help them advance their software development career. If you are new to GitHub and GitHub Actions in general, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of GitHub as a platform will help you to get the most out of this book.

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Priscila Heller was born and raised in Brazil, where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in Journalism. She moved to the United States in 2011, where she has been living ever since. After working in many different fields, she found a career opportunity in Tech, and went back to school to pursue a degree in Information System Technology. In 2016 Priscila joined GitHub as an Enterprise Support Agent. Over the years she was promoted a few times, and today she is a Senior Manager of Premium Support.

Priscila believes in the power of technology, education, and communication. She considers the democratization of knowledge and information to be invaluable for the cultural, social, economic, and scientific development of society and humanity.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Packt Publishing (October 8, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 216 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1800560400
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1800560406
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.25 x 7.5 x 0.46 inches
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Priscila Heller was born and raised in Brazil, where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in Journalism. She moved to the United States in 2011, where she has been living ever since. After working in many different fields, she found a career opportunity in Tech, and went back to school to pursue a degree in Information System Technology. In 2016 Priscila joined GitHub as an Enterprise Support Agent. Over the years she was promoted a few times, and today she is a Senior Manager of Premium Support.

Priscila believes in the power of technology, education, and communication. She considers the democratization of knowledge and information to be invaluable for the cultural, social, economic, and scientific development of society and humanity.

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Miguel
5.0 out of 5 stars Even I understood this!
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2021
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Super easy to read, follow and examples make it one of the best introductions/applications books I've ever read, period. Even for a guy that has never been anywhere near Github and that stuff, I definitely feel that I can now safely start to do so and feel comfortable doing it. Definitely a new weapon in my arsenal. 10/10
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Mike
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book that takes you on a skills-building journey!
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2022
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Well written! Considers the learning journey of the reader from chapter to chapter with a conversational, engaging tone throughout. Provides a plethora of hands-on examples that can be tested using what is taught. Great book for learners at all levels from novice to expert.
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Brian Willebrand
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book! Super Helpful!
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2023
Great book, detailed & helpful!
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MC
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent material for getting started with Actions
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2022
This book provides a great overview of GitHub Actions!
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Sanchit
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Practical Guide
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2021
A very practically written book with step-by-step guides to understanding the concept of Github actions and apply to various frequently used real-world situations.
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carey chin
5.0 out of 5 stars Github guy left
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2022
grabbed kindle to see what we need learn ...we shall see

reading as we speak..
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C. C Chin
5.0 out of 5 stars GitHub or gitlab
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2022
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Either not sure which work using
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Michael Heitland
3.0 out of 5 stars recommended only for beginners
Reviewed in Germany on November 23, 2022
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Well written if you start from scratch and are looking for a short introduction.

But it is not goingvery deep.

And it is a bit pricy regarding the beginner level.
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Jonathan Pritchard
5.0 out of 5 stars Great getting started and introduction, whilst showcasing the power of the tool
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 14, 2022
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I really liked how the book assumed none to little prior knowledge and would incrementally build the complexity. I would say it's helpful to have a grasp of what you might want to achieve in creating a workflow, i.e. team automation or CI/CD and that will help with some of the examples.

The book links well with the documentation too.

A great start for newcomers!
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Brandon
5.0 out of 5 stars The only GitHub Actions book you'll ever need
Reviewed in Australia on November 25, 2021
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Forget searching the net for guides and watching low resolution youtube videos. This book is comprehensive and easy to understand. I would recommend to anyone who is starting out or looking to advance their GitHub Actions skills!
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Mr. Ashley Allen
3.0 out of 5 stars Very superficial overview
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 1, 2022
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I am coming to the CI/CD topic from a security perspective, and wanted to get more of an idea around GitHub Actions (GHA), how they are used, and potential security issues. This book is a good introduction to what GHAs are, but it felt in many places that more in-depth treatments were required. There are lots of pointers to the official documentation; this is fine for topics that may lie outside of what the book is attempting to teach, but too many times it felt that the author was using that as a way to avoid writing extra words. Having read the book I know what GHAs are, but I will need a lot of additional reading to actually do anything useful with them. As another reviewer suggested, there is not a lot of book here for £30, and it is difficult to recommend. As a very basic overview it is OK, but there are likely online resources that will give you the same level of detail for free. I was expecting a much meatier book for the price, and am disappointed with the contents. Packt are generally a decent publisher, so hopefully a much expanded new edition is in the pipeline. Until then, I would avoid.
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kryten
1.0 out of 5 stars Very basic and superficial
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 22, 2022
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I really wanted to like this book, but have to say that there is just no way there is £30 worth of content or value provided.

First off there is way too much time given to basics, by the time the author gets around to describing 'actions' we are well into the book. To be fair the descriptions and diagrams/images used are actually very good, but do not go into anywhere near enough detail to be useful.

A lot of time is given to:-
- The anatomy of jobs and actions.
- Self hosting your runner.
- Intro to building your own actions.

Regrettably this comes at the cost of a lack of depth and detail about oh so many other features provided by Github Actions. The section on creating your own actions seems strange to me given how little depth the author goes into about how to actually use actions. There is barely enough information given about actions to permit a reader to ascetain whether their own runner is even needed.

This is not a big book. I'm struggling to seen how the publisher came up with the £30 price tag. If it had covered more of the topics then I would have been considerably more satisfied. Maybe a future edition which goes into more detail would offer better value, but that does not help in the here and now where i feel just a little ripped off.

Having said all this, if you are a complete newbie and then this would probably be ok for you as it is a more gentle and clearly written intro than that provided by the official docs. If you are not a newbie and have used other CI/CD systems (Gitlab/Azure DevOps etc), then beware! There is not £30 worth of value here.
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