Leverage your CI/CD at the next level with Github actions

Define branch managment system, handle versionning, maintain code quality, prevent security breaches, deploy frequently... Build a good CI/CD for your project can be difficult ! In this talk we will see how to take advantage of features offered by Github like Github Action to build efficient CI/CD that will enhanced your development workflow.

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1. Github Leverage your CI/CD at the next level with Github actions Sylvain Pontoreau Felix Billon Aachen – 15/11/2022
2. Your speakers for this session ! Sylvain Pontoreau @spontoreau Felix Billon @felix_billon
3. History • October 2007 : development starting • April 2008 : official launch • July 2010 : 1 million of repositories • September 2011 : over a 1 million of users • April 2016 : 14 million of users and 35 million of repositories • June 2018 : purchase by Microsoft
4. Github offers all classic basic features to manage repositories : • Source code management • Ticket management • CI/CD • Project management • Wiki • Platform extension through marketplace • ... Basic features
5. Branch system
6. • A good branch system that allows you to : • Help developers to work on the same base code by minimize conflicts • Understand where stable code is, where code needed to be testing is, … • Have a clean history • Deploy faster, rollback faster • … Branch system
7. 👍 • 🔒 Protect production code • 🔖 Allow to maintain different version • 🌟 Most popular Branch system : Gitflow 👎 • 🐢 Slower deployment (❌ for CD) • 👿 Merge hell • 🔀 Many branches • 🧟 Deprecated
8. 👎 • 🤝 Need good collaboration • ⚔ Take care of conflicts Branch system : Trunk based 👍 • 🚀 Fast deployment (✔ for CD) • 1⃣ A branch to rule them all
9. 👎 • ⚠ Risky without quality assurance Branch system : Github flow 👍 • 🚀 Push on main ➡ prod (✔ fast CD) • 󰔨 Few branches • 󰳘 Force high quality code • 🚚 Ship feature everyday (Kanban friendly)
10. 👎 • 🗂 Need good team organization Branch system : Release flow 👍 • 🚀 Fast deployment (✔ for CD) • 📦 Release focused • 😎 Simple to learn and setup • 🔁 Great for iteration (SCRUM friendly) • 🔖 Allow to maintain different version
11. • Many others : Gitlab flow, Oneflow, … • To choose between them wisely : • Understand the size and the needs of your project • Check the maturity of the developer team Branch system
12. Repository configuration
13. Repository Configuration • Implement branch system : • Protect branches and tags • Set conditions for merge request • … • Secure your repository : • Force MFA • Only accept signed commit • Valide commit author • Activate dependabot • …
14. CI / CD
15. • Automation task • Allow to setup CI/CD • Pipeline as code (YAML) Workflow
16. • Stand alone packaged task that could be used in Workflow Actions
17. The big demo !
18. Conclusion
19. Questions ?
20. Thanks 😀