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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

Self-hosted runners

If you need more control than GitHub-hosted runners allow for hardware, operating systems, software, and network access, you can host the runners yourself. Self-hosted runners can be installed on physical machines, virtual machines, or in a container. They can run on-premises or in any public cloud environment.

Self-hosted runners allow for easy migration from other build environments. If you already have automated builds, you just install the runner on the machines and your code should build. But if your build machines are still the ped-like machines that are manually maintained – sometimes positioned physically beyond the desk of a developer – then this is not a permanent solution. Keep in mind that building and hosting a dynamically scaling environment needs expertise and costs money, whether it is hosted in the cloud or on-premises. So, if you can use hosted runners, it is always the easier option. However, if you need a self-hosted solution...