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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 importance of insourcing

Many companies do not see software development as their core business, so they tend to outsource it. Outsourcing means one company hiring another company or freelancer to perform a specific function. Outsourcing is usually not a bad idea: you have another company that is specialized in one thing do the work for you so that you can put your people and investments in your core products. The specialized company normally does things cheaper and better – and building up these skills yourself can take a lot of time and money.

But now, software is the key differentiator for basically all products. Not only the digital customer experience but also smart manufacturing or supply chain management can give you a competitive advantage. Custom software is becoming part of your core business. Due to this, many companies already have an insourcing strategy for software development – that is, recruiting and employing software developers and DevOps engineers...