Chapter 12. Advanced Workflows
By this point in the book, you’ve seen many basic examples of workflows. Beyond the basics are several approaches for leveraging workflows that can greatly simplify repeated use. In this chapter, I’ll show you several ways you can leverage workflows to get additional flexibility and reuse.
In particular, I’ll cover implementation and use patterns for the following:
- Starter workflows
- Reusable workflows
- Required workflows
Creating Your Own Starter Workflows
Starter workflows were introduced in Chapter 1. As a reminder, starter workflows are basic workflow examples, tailored for a particular purpose, that anyone can use as initial code when you need to create a new workflow. As of the time of this writing, the ones provided with GitHub Actions fall into several categories:
- Automation
- Helpful code for doing automated processing such as handling pull requests
- Continuous Integration
- Monitoring code changes and initiating follow-on processes such as building and testing
- Deployment
- Using automation to publish and deploy software updates
- Security
- Adding security automation, such as code scanning, dependency review, etc., to your workflows
- Pages
- Automating deploying and packaging GitHub Pages sites using different technologies
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