GitHub Actions in Action (Final Release)

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 how to 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 workflows
Automate CI/CD workloads and other GitHub tasks
Secure release pipelines with secrets, variables, and environments
Support compliance frameworks
Create safe and scalable self-hosted runners

Written 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.

About the Technology
Believe 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 Book
GitHub 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 Inside
Create and share GitHub Actions workflows
Automate testing and other GitHub tasks
Secure release pipelines with secrets, variables, and environments