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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

After the first three successful sprints, more teams at Tailwind Gears are moved to a new platform. The first teams have been selected to own a product that is already independently testable and deployable. With the scrum master, product owner, and QA member, they are a little big for the two-pizza rule, but this will be addressed later. The teams to follow are way too big, and they work on big monolith applications with a lot of interdependencies. To perform the Inverse Conway Maneuver, all the teams come together and self-organize the next teams to be moved to the new platform. The constraints are as follows:

  • No bigger than a two-pizza team
  • Responsible for a business capability (a bounded context) that can be extracted using the StranglerFigApplication pattern and be tested and deployed autonomously

This helps to evolve the design of the applications. The new microservices are cloud-native and have their own cloud-native data store. They get integrated...