Don’t Look at This! IT’S A SECRET!
To continue the discussion about secrets after perusing this excellent report by GitGuardian—last time I went a little nuts about the number of secrets exposed in IT folks’ personal repositories. And it is a lot. I mean a lot of secrets. But you know what is scarier than, “A lot of secrets are leaked in […]
ZenHub Brings More Science to Sprint Planning
ZenHub today revealed it has added a Planning Poker capability to its platform for managing software development projects that is designed to make it possible to prioritize sprints based on feedback collected from members of the application development team. That capability extends a sprint planning capability the company added this year to a project management […]
Make GitHub Backups Part of Your Development Process
GitHub’s platform is the largest host of source code in the world, hosting over 190 Million repositories. So much of the code we rely on every day is hosted there. You are, in all likelihood, using it. But what would you do if, one day, all of the project code GitHub stored for you disappeared? […]
GitGuardian Reports Careless Handling of Application Secrets
A new report, the 2021 State of Secrets Sprawl on GitHub, published today by GitGuardian, a provider of a tool for monitoring usage of application secrets, suggests developers are not especially good at keeping those secrets safe. Based on an analysis of every single commit made to GitHub, the report finds there has been a […]
Amex, Adobe Join GitHub Intern Program
GitHub revealed today that Adobe and American Express have joined its Summer 2021 Fellowship program, a 12-week, hands-on curriculum where interns work alongside developers to contribute to open source projects hosted on the GitHub repository. Vanessa Gennarelli, senior director of education at GitHub, said the overall goal of the program is increase the pool of […]
Rewind Acquires BackHub to Protect GitHub Repositories
Rewind, a provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for backing up cloud services, today announced it has acquired BackHub to gain control of a platform for backing up GitHub repositories. Based in Germany, BackHub adds a data protection platform to a Rewind portfolio that includes offerings for backing up everything from QuickBooks to Shopify. Fresh […]
Buildkite Tightens CI/CD Integration With GitHub
Buildkite has tightened the integration between its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery platform and the GitHub source code repository. Fred Showell, a senior product manager for Buildkite, said the integration will accelerate application development efforts using the Buildkite application in GitHub. Any connected GitHub account can be selected as a source when creating Buildkite pipelines, he […]
Help Developers Thrive by Finding the Right Platform
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Lightstep Announces New GitHub Action, Bringing Observability Data Directly to GitHub to Avoid Problematic Code Deploys
GitHub Actions is modernizing the developer workflow by automating tasks in the same place developers code and collaborate on pull requests Lightstep will surface relevant Observability data within the existing GitHub workflow to ensure developers are shipping high-quality software cdCON — October 7, 2020 — Lightstep, the cutting-edge distributed tracing tool founded by former Google […]
GitHub Delivers on Code Scanning Promise
GitHub today announced it is now making available at no cost the open source CodeQL code scanning tool it gained by acquiring Semmle. Justin Hutchings, a product manager at GitHub, said the goal is to further adoption of best DevSecOps practices by making it easy for developers to scan for vulnerabilities as they check code […]
Microsoft Advances DevOps Agenda
Microsoft, at its online Ignite 2020 conference, has launched a bevy of updates that collectively further adoption of best DevOps practices on the Microsoft cloud platform, including for the first time a preview of an ability to store artifacts created using low-code Power Apps tools on GitHub. In addition, Microsoft announced a preview of an […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: IT Terminology Matters
Much like any other profession, the IT industry does not exist in a vacuum. Social upheaval will have as much impact on IT professionals as it does on any other. As conversations concerning race relations become more heated and, hopefully, elevated, many in the IT industry are reconsidering the use of terminology such as master/slave […]
GitHub Extends Scope and Reach of Repository
GitHub today at its GitHub Satellite virtual conference announced it has made it easier for developers to either launch a project or join an existing project on its repository and has added collaboration tools directly within the platform. GitHub is also moving to advance DevSecOps by adding code scanning tools and making secret scanning tools […]
GitHub Makes Private Repositories Free for Unlimited Users
GitHub this week announced is making available private repositories for an unlimited number of collaborators available to all GitHub accounts for free. Kelly Stirman, vice president of product strategy and marketing, said that subsidiary of Microsoft could make this move because it is now generating enough revenue from the enterprise edition of its platform to […]
GitLab Responds To GitHub Making Teams Free – We All Win
Microsoft’s GitHub recently announced that it was going to make a change to its product lineup by making the team version of GitHub free and lowering the price on a full-featured version. The move seemed aimed squarely at matching GitLab’s offering. Well, now GitLab has responded to GitHub. While both of these excellent offerings compete […]
DevOps Chats: Plugins Extend Spinnaker for the Enterprise
Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Secrets management is vital to any vibrant DevOps and GitOps toolchain. As part of its open source maturation and thanks to the contribution of our DevOps Chat guest, Spinnaker now has a secure secrets management capability enabling GitOps, taking non-application secrets out of plaintext in hal config files. Cameron Motevasselani, software […]
Anaxi Adds Reporting Capabilities to ALM Tool
Anaxi today announced it has added reporting capabilities to its namesake application lifecycle management (ALM) tool that make it possible to update stakeholders about the status of software development projects residing in repositories such as GitHub and Bitbucket Cloud as well as project management applications such as Jira. Company CEO Marc Verstaen said reporting capabilities […]
GitHub Enterprise Server Update Extends Enterprise Push
GitHub has expanded its push into the enterprise with the 2.18 release of GitHub Enterprise Server, which includes a bevy of updates intended to make administrators’ lives easier. Mario Rodriguez, head of product for GitHub Enterprise, said the enterprise edition of GitHub is seeing triple-digit growth as large companies more aggressively embrace DevOps tools and […]
DOES London 2019: Give Repos the Respect They Deserve
Think about it. could we have a DevOps or even agile without code repositories (repos)? Repos allow for version control, team collaboration, testing on check in and more. So much of what we do today around software development and DevOps is based on the repo. For a long time and even today, the repo was […]
GitHub Actions Advances Automation Strategy
GitHub Actions, a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) through which DevOps tools can automate workflows, is now available in beta. Previewed last year at the GitHub Universe event, GitHub Actions is intended to provide not only a way to automate responses to events occurring within a GitHub Repository but also share those workflows across […]
TypeFox Ties Cloud-Based IDE to GitHub
TypeFox has launched a GitPod.io service that melds the integrated development environment (IDE) based in the cloud from TypeFox with the open source GitHub repository. Sven Efftinge, co-founder of TypeFox, said this level of integration will make it easier for developers to navigate multiple projects from which they pull code from GitHub into an Eclipse-based […]
‘DevOoops’ Moves: SCM Conflicts
DevOps’ ultimate aim is to create efficiencies in the software delivery process. But it doesn’t always work out that way. Sometimes DevOps initiatives lead to mistakes—something we lovingly call a “DevOoops.” CloudBees recently polled some colleagues and came up with five examples of a DevOoops in action. Following is a discussion submitted by solution architect […]
Anaxi Enhances Development Intelligence Tool, Helps Maintain Delivery Schedules with Added Support for Atlassian Jira
App provides greater reporting and analysis capabilities SAN FRANCISCO, November 15, 2018 — Anaxi, maker of software that helps engineering organizations gain control over the development process, announced today its iPhone app has added support for Atlassian Jira Server and Cloud versions to its current support for Github, giving engineers and managers increased visibility and intelligence on […]