Accelerate DevOps with GitHub: Enhance software delivery performance with GitHub Issues, Projects, Actions, and Advanced Security

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Take your DevOps and DevSecOps game to the next level by leveraging the power of the GitHub toolset in practiceKey FeaturesRelease software faster and with confidenceIncrease your productivity by spending more time on software delivery and less on fixing bugs and administrative tasksDeliver high-quality software that is more stable, scalable, and secureBook Description

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.

What you will learnEffectively measure software delivery performanceAdopt DevOps and lean management techniques in your teamsPlan, track, and visualize your work using GitHub Issues and ProjectsUse continuous delivery with GitHub Actions and PackagesScale quality through testing in production and chaos engineering“Shift left” security and secure your entire software supply chainUse DevSecOps practices with GitHub Advanced SecuritySecure your code with code scanning, secret scanning, and DependabotWho this book is for

This book is for developers, solutions architects, DevOps engineers, and SREs, as well as for engineering or product managers who want to enhance their software delivery performance. Whether you're new to DevOps, already have experience with GitHub Enterprise, or come from a platform such as Azure DevOps, Team Foundation Server, GitLab, Bitbucket, Puppet, Chef, or Jenkins but struggle to achieve maximum performance, you'll find this book beneficial.

About the author

Michael Kaufmann believes that people can be happy and productive at work. He loves DevOps, the cloud, and everything that has to do with modern software engineering and productivity. He is the founder and CEO of Xpirit Germany, and he has been working as a consultant and manager in the IT sector for more than 20 years. Michael helps his clients succeed: with cloud adoption, agile, and DevOps transformation. Microsoft has awarded him with the title Microsoft Regional Director (RD) and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) - the latter in the category DevOps and GitHub - ever since 2015. Michael likes to share his knowledge in books, trainings, and as a speaker at international conferences.

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