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Author:   Chaminda Chandrasekara ,  Pushpa Herath
Publisher:   APress
Imprint:   APress
Edition:   1st ed.
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781484264638

ISBN 10:   1484264630
Pages:   162
Publication Date:   23 February 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Chapter 1:  Introduction to GitHub Actions Chapter Goal: Give conceptual overview on CI CD while elaborating on the need of software delivery automation and basic concepts of GitHub Actions. No of pages: 15 Sub -Topics 1.      Introducing Concepts (CI/CD) 2.      Why we need SW Delivery Automation? 3.      What are GitHub Actions? 4.      Identifying core concepts in GitHub Actions 5.      GitHub hosted runners. Chapter 2:  Getting started with GitHub Actions Workflows Chapter Goal: Introduction to GitHub Actions workflows. No of pages: 25 Sub - Topics   1.      Using preconfigured workflow templates 2.      Using Marketplace Actions to create workflows 3.      Building a .NET Core Web App with GitHub Actions 4.      Understanding the structure of a Workflow (jobs, actions, set job dependencies etc.) 5.      Setting up continuous integration using GitHub actions Chapter 3: Variables and Secrets with GitHub Actions Chapter Goal: Lessons to provide hands-on guidance using variables and secrets in a GitHib workflow. No of pages : 15 Sub - Topics:  1.      Defining and using variables 2.      Understanding the default variables usage 3.      Naming conventions for variables 4.      Defining and using secrets   Chapter 4: Using Tokens Chapter Goal: Understanding the use of system token and the personal access tokens to work with GitHub repos and issues via the REST API in GitHub Actions workflow. No of pages: 15 Sub - Topics: 1.      Using GITHUB_TOKEN 2.      Creating a Personal Access Token 3.      Using Personal Access Token in workflow   Chapter 5: Artifacts and Caching Dependencies No of pages: 20 Sub - Topics: 1.      Storing content in Artifacts 2.      Using artifacts in subsequent jobs 3.      Uploading to external artifact store and using them in other workflows 4.      Deleting artifacts 5.      Caching workflow dependencies (compare caching and artifacts, using cache action and matching cache keys) 6.      Limitations and eviction policy in caching   Chapter 6: Using Self-Hosted Runners Chapter Goal: Setting up your own hardware and software to run GitHub actions.. No of pages: 30                                                             Sub - Topics: 1.      Understanding self-hosted runners 2.      Configuring and adding/removing self-hosted runners GitHub. 3.      Self-hosted runners with proxy 4.      Using labels to organize self-hosted runners 5.      Using self-hosted runners in workflows 6.      Monitoring and access control for self-hosted runners   Chapter 7: Publishing Packages and Migrating from Azure DevOps Pipelines Chapter Goal: How to create and publish packages in GitHub actions and migrating pipelines from Azure DevOps pipelines. No of pages: 20 Sub - Topics: 1.      Creating and publishing build artifacts as nuget 2.      Using custom packages in workflows 3.      Using GitHub Packages 4.      Migrating Azure Pipelines Chapter 8: Using Database and Service Containers Chapter Goal: Hands on lessons on using Redis service containers and PostgreSQL service containers. No of pages: 20 Sub - Topics: 1.      Running Redis jobs on containers 2.      Running Redis jobs on runner machine 3.      Using Redis service container 4.      Running PostgreSQL jobs on containers 5.      Running PostgreSQL jobs on runner machine 6.      Using PostgreSQL service container Chapter 9: Creating Custom Actions Chapter Goal: Step by step guidance to create your own GitHub actions. No of pages: 20 Sub - Topics: 1.      Understanding action types 2.      Steps to create a simple action 3.      Creating Docker container action 4.      Publishing actions to marketplace                                                                                          Chapter 10: GitHub Apps Chapter Goal: Using and creating GitHub Apps in workflows. No of pages: 30 Sub - Topics: 1.      Understanding GitHub Actions and Apps 2.      Creating GitHub Apps 3.      Using GitHub Apps Chapter 11: Syntax Reference for GitHub Actions and Workflows Chapter Goal: Syntax guide for GitHub Actions and Workflows. No of pages: 15 Sub - Topics: 1.      Understanding Workflow Syntax 2.      Triggers for Workflows 3.      Using context and expressions 4.      Workflow commands

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Chaminda Chandrasekara is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Visual Studio ALM and Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster®, and focuses on and believes in continuous improvement of the software development life cycle. He is the Cloud Development and DevOps Architect at eKriegers (Pvt) Ltd. Chaminda is an active Microsoft Community Contributor (MCC) who is well recognized for his contributions in Microsoft forums, TechNet galleries, wikis, and Stack Overflow and he contributes extensions to Azure DevOps Server and Services (former VSTS/TFS) in the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace. He also contributes to other open source projects in GitHub. Chaminda has published six books with Apress. Pushpa Herath is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) working as a Senior DevOps Engineer at 99x. She has many years of experience in Azure DevOps Server and Services (formerly VSTS/TFS), Azure cloud platform and QA Automation. She is an expert in DevOps currently leading Sri Lanka DevOps community, and she has shown in depth knowledge in Azure cloud platform tools in her community activities. She has published four books with Apress and spoken in community evets as well as in the youtube channel of her Sri Lanka DevOps community. Pushpa blogs on technology at DevOps Adventure.

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