Take your DevOps and DevSecOps game to the next level by leveraging the power of the GitHub toolset in practice

Key Features

• Release software faster and with confidence
• Increase your productivity by spending more time on software delivery and less on fixing bugs and administrative tasks
• Deliver high-quality software that is more stable, scalable, and secure

Book 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 learn

• Effectively measure software delivery performance
• Adopt DevOps and lean management techniques in your teams
• Plan, track, and visualize your work using GitHub Issues and Projects
• Use continuous delivery with GitHub Actions and Packages
• Scale quality through testing in production and chaos engineering
• “Shift left” security and secure your entire software supply chain
• Use DevSecOps practices with GitHub Advanced Security
• Secure your code with code scanning, secret scanning, and Dependabot

Who 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.

Table of Contents

1. Metrics That Matter
2. Plan, Track, and Visualize Your Work
3. Teamwork and Collaborative Development
4. Asynchronous Work: Collaborate from Anywhere
5. Influence of Open and Inner Source on Software Delivery Performance
6. Automation with GitHub Actions
7. Running Your Workflows
8. Managing Dependencies Using GitHub Packages
9. Deploying to Any Platform
10. Feature Flags and the Feature Lifecycle
11. Trunk-Based Development
12. Shift Left Testing for Increased Quality
13. Shift-Left Security and DevSecOps
14. Securing Your Code
15. Securing Your Deployments
16. Loosely Coupled Architecture and Microservices
17. Empower Your Teams
18. Lean Product Development and Lean Startup
19. Experimentation and A|B-Testing
20. GitHub – The Home for All Developers
21. Migrating to GitHub
22. Organizing Your Teams
23. Transform Your Enterprise

Review

"This book addresses a much wider area than the title alone suggests. Each section covers

• the history as to why we got to where we are,
• the theory as to how we should use a process/technology, and
• what we can do practically to best adopt this practice with GitHub within our organization.

Due to the emphasis this book places on background history and core theories as to why we use a technology, means it will stand the test of time better than most. It’s well worth a read, irrespective of where you are on your DevOps journey."

Richard Funnell, CTO, Black Marble - Accelerate DevOps with GitHub

"Accelerate DevOps with GitHub is a great read. The depth of the content leaves no stone unturned covering all the theory you need, both as an experienced or junior engineer, to understand DevOps. The practical guidance for using GitHub is easy to follow, and this book can easily be used as a handbook by engineers when maturing their processes and practices using the platform."

Gordon Beeming, DevOps Specialist at Derivco and Microsoft MVP (GitHub and Azure DevOps)

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.