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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

History of free and open source software

To understand open source, we must go back to the early days of computer science.

Public domain software

During the 1950s and 1960s, the price of software was low compared to the necessary hardware. Any software that was produced was mainly produced by academics and corporate research teams. It was normal for the source code to be distributed with the software – normally as public domain software. This means that the software is freely available without ownership, copyright, trademark, or patent. These principles of openness and cooperation had a great influence on the hacker culture at that time.

In the late 1960s, the rise of operating systems and compilers increased the costs of software. This was driven by a growing software industry that competed with hardware vendors that bundled their software together with their hardware.

During the 1970s and 1980s, it became common to sell licenses for the use of software and in 1983...