Gain a comprehensive understanding of Git, GitHub, and DevOps with practical implementation tips
Embark on a holistic exploration of DevOps workflows, scaling, DevSecOps, and GitHub Copilot
Discover the best practices for optimizing processes and team productivity
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Description
Git and GitHub are absolutely crucial for DevOps, playing a multifaceted role in streamlining the software development lifecycle and enabling smoother collaboration between development and operations teams.
DevOps Unleashed with Git and GitHub enables you to harness the power of Git and GitHub to streamline workflows, drive collaboration, and fuel innovation. Authored by an expert from GitHub, the book starts by guiding you through Git fundamentals and delving into DevOps and the developer experience. As you progress, you’ll understand how to leverage GitHub's collaboration and automation features, and even use GitHub Copilot for enhanced productivity. You'll also learn how to bridge the DevOps gap, maintain code quality, and implement robust security measures. Additionally, hands-on exercises will equip you to elevate your developer experience, foster teamwork, and drive innovation at the speed of DevOps.
By the end of this DevOps book, you’ll have mastered the Git fundamentals, conquered collaboration challenges, and unleashed the power of GitHub as you transform your DevOps workflows.
Who is this book for?
If you’re aiming to enhance collaboration, productivity, and DevOps practices to enrich your development experience, this book is for you. Novice DevOps engineers will be able resolve their doubts surrounding Git and GitHub errors, while IT admins and system engineers will be able to effortlessly embrace DevOps principles with pragmatic insights. For infrastructure engineers looking to delve into cloud-based collaboration and optimal management practices, this book provides valuable knowledge to facilitate a seamless transition into the DevOps landscape.
What you will learn
Master the fundamentals of Git and GitHub
Unlock DevOps principles that drive automation, continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/ CD), and monitoring
Facilitate seamless cross-team collaboration
Boost productivity using GitHub Actions
Measure and improve development velocity
Leverage the GitHub Copilot AI tool to elevate your developer experience
Has a good review on Git and DevOps practices, but you have to wade through a lot of extra words on the page. Could have been much more succinct and would have appreciated leaning more towards nuts and bolts technical detail.
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TinyJul 10, 2024
5
If you’ve done any coding since roughly 2005, you have probably used Git to manage development and production. “DevOps Unleashed with Git and GitHub” (Packt, 2024) by Yuki Hattori works hard to bring veteran developers up to speed on the new tools. The book includes extensive coding samples, various development strategies, and thoroughly explores the benefits, challenges, and best practices for each approach. A quick read: the book is divided into three sections, starting with Git, excellence in practices, and beyond DevOps. This book makes an excellent reference for developers, system administrators, or project managers who are currently using GitHub. The book begins with a fresh introduction to Git from the command-line perspective, exploring structures, commands and usages. This brings the reader in at a basic level and ensures a familiarity with the approach. One interesting term, and a first for me, was InnerSource, the development tied to a team rather than OpenSource, where all code becomes widely available. InnerSource pillars are described as openness, transparency, prioritizing mentorship, and voluntary code contribution. The second section moves from the command line git to the user interface (UI) associated with GitHub. These reinforce the techniques from the first section with a point-and-click rather than a command-line approach. One of the best parts for me was the thorough overview of GitHub Issues and Projects. If you haven’t used these tools, they address a historical weakness in GitHub with being able to create work to be done and track via a Scrum or Kanban board. The section also covers establishing a GitHub actions pipeline and describes various deployments such as Blue/Green, A/B, canary, feature flags, and others in detail. Like all other actions, these approaches include benefits, challenges, and best practices to take away. Finally, the book discusses DevOps metrics with DORA and Space, and introduces the concept of Ai. GitHub Copilot, as an additional coding tool. Copilot launched in late 2021 and provides an assistant to writing code. The author references some key aspects when using AI such as detailed comments, descriptive naming conventions, thorough documentation and clearly framed problems. While one may prefer using Generative AI, simply telling it to write code to do a thing doesn’t always get the best results. My biggest issue was the DevOps portion fell a little short. The first chapter extensively covers some of the logic around DevOps, and emphasizes the cultural nature. I agree culture is the primary aspect of DevOps, but if culture is the driver, than technology becomes less important. The book’s DevOps approach feels more like framing to showcase Git and GitHub rather than a full unleashing. In full DevOps implementation, the tools matter, but people and processes carry equal weight. Tools also are a needed element but not an exclusive element to reach accelerated delivery. The DevOps SDLC appears, but the three ways of flow, feedback, and continuous improvement and the CALMS (culture, automation, Lean, Metrics, and Sharing) are conspicuously absent. Agood example might be rather than simply mentioning how Git supports DevOps, show what a full unleashing looks like to the author. Overall, “Devops Unleashed with Git and GitHub” does a much better job in describing the tools than truly unleashing DevOps. That said, this is an excellent reference for those using Git or GitHub for their current development needs. If you are working with either of those tools, I recommend this as a reference and a good introduction to some new capabilities. If you are just starting into coding, this is an excellent place to pick up some core skills.
Amazon Verified review
Mr S PaynterMay 10, 2024
5
DevOps Unleashed with Git and GitHub" is a comprehensive and practical guide that caters to a wide range of readers, from those new to Git and DevOps to experienced professionals seeking to optimize their processes and team productivity. With its combination of theoretical knowledge and hands-on exercises, this book promises to be an invaluable companion for anyone looking to unleash the full potential of Git, GitHub, and DevOps within their organization.
Yuki Hattori, an architect at GitHub, showcases his hands-on expertise in DevOps and technical advice for enterprise clients. He began as a software engineer and progressed to cloud solution architect at Microsoft, overseeing cloud architecture and DevOps. A strong advocate for open source culture within an enterprise, he champions InnerSource adoption, serving as a board member of the InnerSource Commons Foundation. This nonprofit role drives global InnerSource adoption, breaking down organizational silos for innovation.
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