Book Image

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

Overview of GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions is the native automation engine on GitHub. It allows you to run workflows on any event in GitHub – not only commits to source control! GitHub can trigger your workflows when an issue changes its state or is added to a milestone, when a card is moved in GitHub Projects, when someone clicks Star on your repository, or when a comment is added to a discussion. There are triggers for nearly everything. The workflows themselves are built for reuse. You can build reusable actions by just putting code in a repository. Alternatively, you can share actions through the GitHub Marketplace (https://github.com/marketplace), which currently contains about 10,000 actions.

These workflows can be executed in the cloud on every major platform: Linux, macOS, Windows, ARM, and containers. You can even configure and host runners – in the cloud or your data center – without the need to open incoming ports.

GitHub Learning Lab

A good...