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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

The lifecycle of features

Until a few years ago, most software was released every 1 or 2 years in major versions that had to be purchased separately or at least were coupled tightly to licensing through subscriptions. All the new features were squeezed into these new release versions. The new releases normally came with pieces of training, books, and online courses to teach the users the new features.

These sales models basically do not exist anymore today. Customers want their software as a service. No matter if we talk about mobile apps such as Facebook or WhatsApp, or desktop software such as Office or Windows, software is updated and optimized continuously, and new features are added constantly. This brings the challenge of educating your end users on how to use the new features properly. An intuitive user experience and easy discoverability of new features are more important than they were with the old sales model. Features must be self-explanatory, and a simple on-screen dialog...