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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

Hosting options and pricing

GitHub has many different licenses and hosting options. It is important to understand them to make the right choice for your enterprise.

Hosting options

GitHub (https://github.com) is hosted in data centers in the United States. You can sign up on GitHub for free and you'll get unlimited private and public repositories for free. Many of the features in GitHub are free for open source projects but not for private repositories.

For enterprises, you have different options to host GitHub (see Figure 20.1):

Figure 20.1 – Hosting options for GitHub Enterprise

GitHub Enterprise Cloud

GitHub Enterprise Cloud (GHEC) is a SaaS offering from GitHub and is completely hosted by GitHub in their cloud infrastructure in the United States. You can apply additional security and support single sign-on for your users. GHEC allows you to host private and public repositories so that you can host open source projects in the context...