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Accelerate DevOps with GitHub

By : Michael Kaufmann
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Accelerate DevOps with GitHub

By: Michael Kaufmann

Overview of this book

This practical guide to DevOps uses GitHub as the DevOps platform and shows how you can leverage the power of GitHub for collaboration, lean management, and secure and fast software delivery. The chapters provide simple solutions to common problems, thereby helping teams that are already on their DevOps journey to further advance into DevOps and speed up their software delivery performance. From finding the right metrics to measure your success to learning from other teams’ success stories without merely copying what they’ve done, this book has it all in one place. As you advance, you’ll find out how you can leverage the power of GitHub to accelerate your value delivery – by making work visible with GitHub Projects, measuring the right metrics with GitHub Insights, using solid and proven engineering practices with GitHub Actions and Advanced Security, and moving to event-based and loosely coupled software architecture. By the end of this GitHub book, you'll have understood what factors influence software delivery performance and how you can measure your capabilities, thus realizing where you stand in your journey and how you can move forward.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
1
Part 1: Lean Management and Collaboration
7
Part 2: Engineering DevOps Practices
14
Part 3: Release with Confidence
19
Part 4: Software Architecture
22
Part 5: Lean Product Management
25
Part 6: GitHub for your Enterprise

Chapter 8: Managing Dependencies Using GitHub Packages

Using a package registry to manage your dependencies should be an absolute no-brainer. If you are writing .NET, you use NuGet, if you are writing JavaScript, it's probably npm, and if you are using Java, it's Maven or Gradle. And yet, I meet many teams that still use their filesystem or Git submodules to reuse code files in multiple code bases. Or they build assemblies and store them in source control. Moving to packages with semantic versioning is easy and cheap, and it boosts the quality and discoverability of your shared code.

In this chapter, I show you how you can use GitHub Packages to manage your internal dependencies like you manage your software supply chain. The main topics are as follows:

  • GitHub Packages
  • Using npm packages with Actions
  • Using Docker with Packages
  • Apache Maven, Gradle, NuGet, and RubyGems packages

    Semantic Versioning

    Semantic versioning is a formal convention for specifying...