SE Radio 567: Dave Cross on GitHub Actions

Dave Cross, owner of Magnum Solutions and author
of GitHub Actions Essentials (Clapham Technical Press), speaks
with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about GitHub actions, the value
they provide, and the best practices for using them in your
projects. Cross describes the vast range of things that
developers can do with GitHub Actions, including some use cases
you might never have thought about. They start with some general
discussion of CI/CD and then consider the three main types of
events that drive GitHub actions before digging in to details
about fine-grained action events, Action Marketplace, contexts,
yaml, docker base images, self-hosted runners, and more. They
further explore identity management, permissions, dependency
management, saving money, and how to keep your secrets secret.