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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

The heart of collaboration – the pull request

A pull request is more than just a classical code review. It's a way to do the following:

  • Collaborate on code
  • Share knowledge
  • Create shared ownership of the code
  • Collaborate across team boundaries

But what exactly is a pull request? A pull request—also known as a merge request— is a process of integrating changes from other branches into a target branch in your Git repository. The changes can come from a branch within your repository or from a fork—a copy of your repository. Pull request is often abbreviated to PR. People without write permissions can fork your repository and create pull requests. This allows owners of open source repositories to allow contributions without giving everyone write access to the repository. That's why in the open source world, pull requests are the default for integrating changes into the repository.

Pull requests can also be used to collaborate...