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Accelerate DevOps with GitHub

By : Michael Kaufmann
Book Image

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

Why many transformations fail

Software is at the heart of every product and service in every industry – from the customer experience to supply chain management (see Chapter 1, Metrics That Matter). This means a lot of enterprises must transform to become digital high-performance companies, but many of these transformations fail. Roles are renamed, management levels are restructured, and hosting is renamed to private cloud, but often the culture and performance do not change. There are many reasons why transformations fail and I want to give you some examples here.

Assuming your company or industry is special

Many customers that I meet believe that they are completely special, but they are not. And, I’m sorry to say, it’s probable that neither is your company or industry. At least, not when it comes to digital transformation. Could your product kill people if it has a defect? So could cars, airplanes, trucks, medical devices, and so on. And the same is true...