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From macOS runners to secure deployments, what’s new from GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions is not just your average CI/CD and automation tool. Integrated natively in the GitHub Enterprise platform, Actions adds the “flow” into developer workflow. Designed with developers in mind, GitHub Actions balances the extensibility and flexibility required to quickly and easily build CI/CD workflows, while also offering key governance and security features and compute in a range of sizes that scale with you as you grow.
How GitHub uses GitHub Actions and Actions larger runners to build and test GitHub.com
The Developer Experience (DX) team at GitHub collaborated with a number of other teams to work on moving our continuous integration (CI) system to GitHub Actions to support the development and scaling demands of our engineering team. Our goal as a team is to enable our engineers to confidently and quickly ship software. To that end, we’ve worked on providing paved paths, a suite of automated tools and applications to streamline our development, runtime platforms, and deployments.
Building organization-wide governance and re-use for CI/CD and automation with GitHub Actions
Setting the scene A strong focus on automation can reap benefits, particularly in your development workflow and DevOps lifecycle. We know that continuous integration (CI) can help accelerate development and enhance overall quality, while continuous delivery (CD) and continuous deployment (CD) can help reduce time-to-production and test for quality in live environments (for example, API fuzzing, infrastructure-as-code [IaC] validation, performance and load testing, and much more).
How to build a consistent workflow for development and operations teams
In GitHub’s recent 2022 State of the Octoverse report, HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) was the fastest growing programming language on GitHub. HashiCorp is a leading provider of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation for cloud computing. HCL is HashiCorp’s configuration language used with tools like Terraform and Vault to deliver IaC capabilities in a human-readable configuration file across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.
Europe’s chance to be a leader in the age of AI
The GitHub policy paper on the AI Act can be found here. Hello. Thank you for having me here. Thank you to those watching online. I’m Thomas, and I’m a developer. And you know, I’ve been a developer so long—I normally see a few people in the audience I know. I have been to a LOT of developer conferences, but not to discussions about public policy. I must admit: I probably don’t know most of you. Which is why I’m so excited to be here today. It’s my first time giving remarks on any public policy, ever.
Bringing GitHub Actions to GitHub Mobile
GitHub Actions has changed the way people automate workflows. On the GitHub Mobile team our mission is to unchain you from your desk and bring GitHub to you—wherever you are—and we’ve heard your feedback: GitHub Actions has consistently been one of your most-requested features, so over the past few months we focused on bringing the power of GitHub Actions to your mobile devices to keep work moving.
How GitHub coordinates product releases with GitHub Projects and GitHub Actions
Looking to supercharge cross-functional work at your organization? Here at GitHub, we take pride in using GitHub to release new products and features. Each new product and feature that we release requires a great amount of cross-functional collaboration, and touches nearly all our teams, from engineering to social media.
3 common DevOps antipatterns and cloud native strategies that can help
When implemented well, DevOps practices can transform how application teams deliver business value. However, the use of antipatterns can lead to disappointing results. Antipatterns are when teams focus on short term goals and concentrate on tooling without factoring in people and process. According to Martin Fowler (co-author of the Agile Manifesto), a software pattern is something that “should have recurrence, which means the solution must be applicable in lots of different situations.
Introducing required workflows and configuration variables to GitHub Actions
Today, we are introducing two new features for GitHub Actions to help standardize policies and reduce duplication, required workflows and configuration variables. Read on for what this means for your DevOps processes. Required workflows Required workflows in GitHub Actions are now available in public beta.
Release Radar · January 2022 Edition
The start to the new year has been a hectic one, with some people slowly coming back to work, and others deciding to continue coding from home. Whether developing from the comfort of your house – or at a random cafe – it hasn’t stopped the community from shipping awesome open source projects and updates. Everything from big open source libraries to weekend hobbies have been built and shipped over the last month. Here’s this month’s top staff picks on projects that shipped major version releases.
Release Radar · December 2021 Edition
Many of us were wrapping up projects, emails, events, and getting ready for Christmas. While we were all busy getting ready for the festive season, our community was still hard at work shipping open source projects. Everything from big open source projects to weekend hobbies. There’s also been a lot of new projects shipped. Here’s this month’s top staff picks on projects that released major version releases.
Announcing the GitHub integration with Microsoft Teams
Developers use GitHub together with a number of other platforms, to communicate with each other on issues, pull requests, deployment statuses, and other updates. We want to integrate GitHub with other platforms to make it easier for developers and teams to collaborate around their projects from whatever context they work in.
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