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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

Dependency management and Dependabot

To manage your dependencies, you can use Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools. GitHub offers Dependency graphs, Dependabot alerts, and Dependabot security updates to manage your software dependencies.

Dependency graph helps you to understand your dependency tree. Dependabot alerts check your dependencies for known vulnerabilities and alert you in case Dependabot finds any. If you enable Dependabot security updates, Dependabot will automatically create pull requests that update your dependencies if the author of the dependent package releases a fix for a vulnerability.

The dependency graph is enabled by default for public repositories but not for private ones. Dependabot alerts and updates must be enabled for all repositories. You can do this under Settings | Security & Analysis (see Figure 14.1):

Figure 14.1 – Enable the dependency graph and Dependabot

On the organizational level, you can enable these...