API World + CloudX + Dev Innovation Summit 2024

Avin Indrasoma, GitHub Education, GitHub Campus Expert

In a constantly evolving and updating software development landscape, DevOps practices are critical to deliver code, fast and efficiently! GitHub acts as a developer ecosystem providing a comprehensive set of tools and features empowering your DevOps workflows across teams! This will be a 30 minutes talk diving into how various GitHub tools can be used in various aspects and processes of DevOps for collaboration, automation, security and much more!

The first tool being discussed is GitHub Packages, a tool designed to simply dependency management, allowing you to publish, update and manage your packages right from your code repository. Next we will be diving into security features such as Dependabot for automated dependency updates, Code Scanning and Secrets Management. Finally, we will be discussing GitHub Actions, a powerful automation platform. We will also be briefly discussing about GitHub Codespaces, a cloud hosted development environment redefining the boundaries of portability for development.

The talk will be filled with practical examples, best practices, and other tips and tricks to extract the full potential of the GitHub Developer ecosystem in your DevOps Adventure. Whether you are a student just getting started in DevOps or if you're an experienced DevOps engineer this session will have takeaways to apply to your development journey.