Learning GitHub Actions: Automation and Integration of CI/CD with GitHub

by Brent Laster

Automate your software development processes with GitHub Actions, the continuous integration and continuous delivery platform that integrates seamlessly with GitHub. With this practical book, open source author, trainer, and DevOps director Brent Laster explains everything you need to know about using and getting value from GitHub Actions. You'll learn what actions and workflows are and how they can be used, created, and incorporated into your processes to simplify, standardize, and automate your work in GitHub. This book explains the platform, components, use cases, implementation, and integration points of actions, so you can leverage them to provide the functionality and features needed in today's complex pipelines and software development processes. You'll learn how to design and implement automated workflows that respond to common events like pushes, pull requests, and review updates. You'll understand how to use the components of the GitHub Actions platform to gain maximum automation and benefit. With this book, you

Genres: Programming, Computer Science, Software, Technology, Nonfiction, Technical, Reference

411 pages, Paperback

Published September 26, 2023

Reviews

[Ezra · Rating 4 out of 5]

He leído la versión "Early Release" y es un excelente recurso para iniciar. Desde mi perspectiva hace falta un poco más de claridad en el uso de variables y llaves en la sección del uso de caché en GitHub Actions dentro del capítulo "5.- Managing Artifacts and Caches".

[Linus · Rating 4 out of 5]

Even though I have used GitHub actions quite a bit, there were still very useful pieces of information to be picked up in the book.

[Kendel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this in early release.

It clarified a lot i was unsure on. The more technical parts of the book are not released yet but based on the already written sections i trust they will be good.

If you already read github docs this is not going to provide you too much more than edge cases. Clarifications. And examples you may not have explored other wise. Id say its worthwhile but not going to change your life.

[Ben · Rating 5 out of 5]

My Go-To Automation Platform

I love GitHub Actions. I use it daily to perform some really intricate and advanced CI/CD activities.

I am so happy with this book, and so glad I got to check it out.

It helped me improve my workflows and get the most out of this powerful GitHub Actions system.

I would highly recommend getting this book if you are interested in automating your code activities.

Check it out!

4.8/5

[Nickolai · Rating 5 out of 5]

Книга понравилась своей последовательностью и неторопливостью. Автор потихоньку вводит читателя в курс особенностей Github Actions, дополняя рассказ живыми примерами и скриншотами. Постепенно уровень усложняется и в любой момент можно остановиться, если дальнейшие темы не нужны тебе в твоей работе. Единственный минус, но вполне ощутимый - это отсутствие систематизации и целостной картины возможных структурных элементов ямловского файла для настройки воркфлоу.

[Julian Dunn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm on the cover of the book since I wrote the foreword and was paid to conduct a tech review of the book :-) so I'm hardly an unbiased reviewer, but it is a great introduction to the product that I head up.

[Vince D'Onofrio · Rating 4 out of 5]

Comprehensive overview with a lot of decent examples, although most of the contents can be found in the official GitHub docs and blog.