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What Kind of DevOps Software Does Your Business Need?

DevOps is a rapidly-growing approach to software management, development, and release. Adoption has nearly doubled year-over-year from 2017 to 2018 and Google searches for “DevOps” has more than quadrupled in the last five years.

As more companies start researching and implementing DevOps, there’s an increasing focus on the software and tools needed to enable the most effective DevOps processes. There are plenty of options available that offer a range of benefits, from reducing manual tasks and limiting errors to speeding up software delivery timeframes and improving visibility. Deciding what software is right for you requires a closer look at what types of software are available and how they play into your business needs.

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Build Pipelines for GitHub Projects

If you have a project on GitHub, chances are you will want to continually build it to ensure it is still compiling, that it is still working — meaning, all tests are passing — and possibly create a release of the project so others, including yourself, can simply use the latest version without having to manually compile/package it. For all that, you will need a build pipeline.

GitHub now has a feature called GitHub Actions that can be used for many things, especially workflows that are triggered by events in your repository — like "issue created" or "push." And while developers can be very creative and extrapolate the boundaries of what GitHub Actions is aiming for, the reality is that for complex applications continuous integration and delivery, you are more likely better off with a platform that gives you control over build agents, software provisioned in them, custom webhooks, human control over workflows, and so on.