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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

Infrastructure as code

Infrastructure as code (IaC) is the process of managing and provisioning all your infrastructure resources through machine-readable files. Often, these files are versioned and managed in Git-like code. In this case, it is often referred to as GitOps.

IaC can be imperative, declarative, or a mix of both. Imperative means the files are procedural, such as scripts, whereas declarative refers to a functional approach that describes the desired state in a markup language such as YAML or JSON. To get the full power of IaC, you should manage it in a way where you can also apply changes, not just complete provisioning and deprovisioning. This is often referred to as Continuous Configuration Automation (CCA).

Tools

There are many tools that you can use for IaC and CCA. For instance, there are cloud-specific tools such as Azure ARM, Bicep, or AWS CloudFormation. However, there are also many independent tools that you can use for on-premises infrastructure. Some...