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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

Case study

With the automation of the release process in place, the two pilot teams have already noted a great boost in productivity. Metrics for lead time and deployment frequency have increased significantly.

The team that used git before they moved from Bitbucket to GitHub followed Gitflow as their branching workflow. Since their web application can be released continuously using their staged deployment workflow, they move to a trunk-based workflow with PR and private branches and deploy after the merge to the main branch using their CI/CD workflow (MyFlow). To integrate often, they decide to use feature flags. As the company needs feature management in the cloud and on-premises, they decide to go with Unleash. The team can use the software-as-a-service (SaaS) service and can start using it right away without having to wait for an on-premises solution.

The second team that migrated from Team Foundation Server (TFS) had been used to a complex branching workflow with a long...