GitHub supports defining a repository as a template. This enables you to configure a repository, its contents, and its branches quickly. But it can do more…

GitHub Actions Workflows can provide a great abstraction layer for creating or orchestrating build and release processes. Since we’re running code – in some cases, from third-parties – it’s important to understand how to secure the environment from malicious Actions. This is where permissions can help.

The support for custom features in Dev Containers is a huge improvement to the process of customizing images quickly and easily. The convenience and simplicity can have a cost – performance. Trying to customize a container using a feature recently, I struggled with an incredibly long build time. This is how I improved the process.

Git’s safe directory configuration helps to protect users, but it can create challenges. This is especially true when using Hugo with Azure Static Web Sites. In that case, you’re dealing with an Action that bind-mounts the source code into a container. This requires some special handling.

GitHub Actions allows you to create matrix builds to execute steps multiple times with different parameters. Fun tip – those parameters can be dynamic. You can define them programmatically!