About this ebook
The Complete Developer’s Guide to Automating CI/CD Pipelines
Are you ready to master GitHub Actions and automate your entire software delivery pipeline?
In today’s fast-paced development world, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) are no longer optional—they are essential. GitHub Actions in Action is your complete, hands-on guide to building powerful, scalable, and secure CI/CD pipelines using GitHub’s native automation platform.
Whether you're a beginner exploring DevOps or an experienced developer looking to optimize workflows, this book takes you from fundamentals to advanced real-world implementations—step by step.
What You’ll Learn
✔ Understand the core concepts of GitHub Actions—workflows, jobs, steps, and runners
✔ Write and manage workflows using YAML with confidence
✔ Automate builds, tests, and deployments with CI/CD best practices
✔ Configure triggers, events, and scheduling for fully automated pipelines
✔ Use and create custom GitHub Actions from scratch
✔ Secure your pipelines with secrets, environments, and permissions
✔ Build robust Continuous Integration pipelines with testing, linting, and caching
✔ Implement Continuous Deployment to AWS, Azure, GCP, and GitHub Pages
✔ Work with Docker, containers, and multi-platform builds
✔ Apply advanced techniques like reusable workflows, matrix builds, and concurrency control
✔ Strengthen security using OIDC, CodeQL, and supply chain protection
✔ Build real-world DevOps pipelines for web apps, microservices, and mobile applications
Who This Book Is For
Software Developers & Engineers
DevOps Engineers & SREs
QA Engineers & Automation Testers
Cloud Engineers & Platform Teams
Students and professionals learning CI/CD and GitHub Actions
Build, Automate, and Deploy with Confidence
From your first workflow to enterprise-grade automation pipelines, this book equips you with everything you need to become proficient in GitHub Actions and modern DevOps practices.
If you want to save time, reduce errors, and deliver software faster, this is the only guide you need.
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About the author
Debashish Mohapatra is a software engineer by profession and a passionate writer by choice. With a deep curiosity for both the seen and unseen layers of life, his writing spans a unique blend of genres—from health and wellness to history and technology. He believes that knowledge, when shared through stories, becomes transformative.
Debashish is the author of three well-received books: The Art of Living a Healthy Life, The Magnetic Aura, and The Forgotten Art of Transition. In his fourth book, The Lost Centuries, he dives into one of history’s greatest enigmas—the Dark Ages—unraveling forgotten empires, lost knowledge, and the silence of vanished civilizations.
Whether decoding ancient mysteries or exploring modern challenges, Debashish brings clarity, depth, and human connection to every page he writes.
When he’s not immersed in code or manuscripts, he spends his time exploring cultures, studying forgotten timelines, and crafting ideas that bridge the past with the present.
