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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

Enterprise security

As an enterprise, you can use SAML single sign-on (SSO) with your identity provider (IdP) to protect your GitHub Enterprise resources. SSO can be configured in GHEC at the enterprise and organization levels. In GHES, it can only be configured for the entire server.

SAML SSO can be configured with every IdP that supports SAML – but not all support the System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM). These are compatible: Azure AD (AAD), Okta, and OneLogin.

SAML authentication

Configuring SAML SSO in GitHub is straightforward. You can find the corresponding settings in the enterprise or organization settings under Authentication security (/settings/security) | SAML single sign-on. Here, you can find the consumer URL you will need to configure your IdP (see Figure 20.8):

Figure 20.8 – Configure SAML SSO in GitHub

The values for the fields must be configured in your IdP. Check their documentation for more information...