Category

GitHub

GitHub is a web-based platform that helps developers store, track, and collaborate on software projects. It’s built around the Git version control system, and enhances the developer workflow with features like project boards, pull requests, releases, and workflow pipelines with GitHub Actions. GitHub is used by both the open source community and enterprises to manage software, documentation, and other projects.

GitHub Copilot Chat – AI Coding Assistant Anywhere in the GitHub Mobile App

by Chris Pietschmann | May 7, 2024

GitHub Copilot Chat is a chat interface that let's you interact directly with GitHub Copilot from within the GitHub Mobile app. It empowers...

Enhancing Software Integrity with Artifact Attestations in GitHub Actions

by Chris Pietschmann | May 3, 2024

Ensuring the integrity and security of software artifacts is extremely important. With the proliferation of supply chain attacks and the increasing...

GitHub Actions: Commit and Push Changes Back to Repository

by Chris Pietschmann | Apr 30, 2024

GitHub Actions are great at enabling you to automate workflows directly from within a GitHub repository. The workflows are stored in a YAML...

Terraform: Modules using Git Branch as Source

by Chris Pietschmann | Apr 26, 2024

HashiCorp Terraform empowers DevOps Engineers and SREs to manage cloud resources efficiently. One of its standout features is the Terraform Modules...

Git: Merge Repositories with History

by Chris Pietschmann | Apr 1, 2024

Merging two Git repositories together in not a common task. In my own consulting work, this is a task that does come up every so often when the code...

GitHub Actions: Run Pandoc to convert Markdown to Word Document

by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 8, 2024

Pandoc is a great tool for document conversion and generation. I've written tons of training course and documentation content over the years, and...

How to Determine URL a Local Git Repository was Originally Cloned From

by Chris Pietschmann | Oct 30, 2023

Git is a powerful version control system widely used in the software development world. When working with Git repositories, it's essential to have a...

Git: Reset / Undo Most Recent Local Commit

by Chris Pietschmann | Oct 23, 2023

Git is a powerful version control system (used stand-alone, with GitHub, and Azure DevOps) that allows developers to keep track of changes in their...

Markdown: How to Add Images to README.md on GitHub

by Chris Pietschmann | Oct 13, 2023

GitHub is a popular platform for hosting and managing your code repositories. One of the essential aspects of a well-documented project on GitHub is...

Configuring Manual Triggers in GitHub Actions with `workflow_dispatch`

by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 22, 2023

Manually triggering GitHub Actions workflows can be very useful at times, in addition to GitHub Actions ability to be triggered on certain events,...

Terraform: GitHub Actions Automated Deployment

by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 15, 2023

HashiCorp Terraform infrastructure deployments can always be run manual, but using GitHub Actions to implement Continuous Integration and Continuous...

GitHub Certifications (Actions, Admin and Security) for Azure Partners

by Chris Pietschmann | Sep 15, 2022

There have been some in the community talking about new GitHub Certifications that are currently in a private beta available to Microsoft Partners...

Getting Started with GitHub CLI

by Dan Patrick | Sep 17, 2020

The all-new GitHub CLI has shipped! This now brings the power of GitHub to your terminal, on Windows, macOS, and Linux. GitHub is giving us the...

GitHub Satellite ’20 Announcements: Discussions, CodeSpaces, securing code, and more!

by Chris Pietschmann | May 7, 2020

Earlier this week, GitHub hosted their annual GitHub Satellite event. The GitHub Satellite 2020 event this year was completely virtual, and free for...