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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

Other git workflows

Before we have a closer look into what I believe to be the most effective git workflow for DevOps teams using GitHub, I want to make an introduction to the most popular workflows.

Gitflow

Gitflow is still one of the most popular workflows. It was introduced in 2010 by Vincent Driessen (see https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/) and became very popular. Gitflow has a nice poster, and it is a very descriptive introduction on how to solve problems in git such as releasing using tags and working with branches that get deleted after they have been merged (see Figure 11.1):

Figure 11.1 – Gitflow overview

Gitflow is great if you ship your software every few months to different customers, want to bundle some features to a new major version that is licensed separately, and have to maintain many versions for many years. In 2010, this was the common release flow for nearly all software, but in complex environments, the...