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

GitHub Actions 
Cookbook
Contributors
About the author
About the reviewers
Preface
   Who this book is for
   What this book covers
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   Conventions used
   Sections
      Getting ready
      How to do it…
      How it works…
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1
GitHub Actions Workflows
   Technical requirements
   The GitHub ecosystem
   Hosting and pricing for GitHub
   Pricing for GitHub Actions
   GitHub Marketplace
   Using the workflow editor for writing workflows
      Getting ready
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
   Using secrets and variables
      Getting ready
      How to do it…
      There’s more…
   Creating and using environments
      Getting ready
      How to do it…
      There’s more…
2
Authoring and Debugging Workflows
   Using Visual Studio Code for authoring workflows
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
   Developing workflows in branches
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
   Linting workflows
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
   Writing messages to the log
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
   Enabling debug logging
      How to do it…
      There’s more…
   Running your workflows locally
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
3
Building GitHub Actions
   Technical requirements
   Creating a Docker container action
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
   Adding output parameters and using job summaries
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
   Creating a TypeScript action
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
   Creating a composite action
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
   Using github-script in a composite action to add a comment to an issue
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
   Sharing actions to the marketplace
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
4
The Workflow Runtime
   Technical requirements
   Setting up a self-hosted runner
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
   Auto-scaling self-hosted runners
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
   Scaling self-hosted runners with Kubernetes using ARC
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
   Runners and runner groups
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
   GitHub-hosted runners
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
5
Automate Tasks in GitHub with GitHub Actions
   Technical requirements
   Creating an issue template
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There is more…
   Using the GitHub CLI and GITHUB_TOKEN to access resources
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
   Using environments for approvals and checks
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There is more…
   Reusable workflows and composite actions
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There is more…
6
Build and Validate Your Code
   Technical requirements
   Building and testing your code
      Getting ready
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
   Building different versions using a matrix
      Getting ready
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
   Informing the user on details of your build and test results
      Getting ready
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
   Finding security vulnerabilities with CodeQL
      Getting ready
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
   Creating a release and publishing the package
      Getting ready
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
   Versioning your packages
      Getting ready
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
   Generating and using SBOMs
      Getting ready
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
   Using caching in workflows
      Getting ready
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
7
Release Your Software with GitHub Actions
   Technical requirements
   Building and publishing a container
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
   Using OIDC to securely deploy to any cloud
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
   Environment approval checks
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
   Releasing the container application to AKS
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
   Automating the update of your dependencies
      Getting ready…
      How to do it…
      How it works…
      There’s more…
   Clean up
   Summary
Index
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