Leverage the power of Git to smooth out the development cycle

Professional Git takes a professional approach to learning this massively popular software development tool, and provides an up-to-date guide for new users. More than just a development manual, this book helps you get into the Git mindset--extensive discussion of corollaries to traditional systems as well as considerations unique to Git help you draw upon existing skills while looking out--and planning for--the differences. Connected labs and exercises are interspersed at key points to reinforce important concepts...

This practical guide shows you how the latest features enable you to define pipelines-as-code, make pipelines restartable and recoverable, and add automatic processing for GitHub branches and organizations. You'll also learn Jenkins' improved support for containerization through Docker.

With this practical book, open source author, trainer, and DevOps director Brent Laster explains everything you need to know about using and getting value from GitHub Actions.