GitHub for SysAdmins with April Edwards
What can GitHub do for you? While at NDC London, Richard chatted with April Edwards about how GitHub can help sysadmins - and everyone in your organization! In the end, GitHub is an engine for managing work, with GitHub Actions kicking off workflows that can send messages, run all sorts of code, activate scripts, and more. Ultimately, you get a good report of what happened - or didn't happen. And over time, those scripts can mature to be more reliable and detailed - and keep a record of every change.
Episode 925 of the RunAs Radio podcast, hosted by Richard Campbell, April Edwards, titled "GitHub for SysAdmins with April Edwards" was published on March 27, 2024 and runs 37 minutes.
March 27, 2024 ·37m · RunAs Radio
Summary
What can GitHub do for you? While at NDC London, Richard chatted with April Edwards about how GitHub can help sysadmins - and everyone in your organization! In the end, GitHub is an engine for managing work, with GitHub Actions kicking off workflows that can send messages, run all sorts of code, activate scripts, and more. Ultimately, you get a good report of what happened - or didn't happen. And over time, those scripts can mature to be more reliable and detailed - and keep a record of every change.
Episode Description
What can GitHub do for you? While at NDC London, Richard chatted with April Edwards about how GitHub can help sysadmins - and everyone in your organization! In the end, GitHub is an engine for managing work, with GitHub Actions kicking off workflows that can send messages, run all sorts of code, activate scripts, and more. Ultimately, you get a good report of what happened - or didn't happen. And over time, those scripts can mature to be more reliable and detailed - and keep a record of every change.
Links
- GitHub Actions
- Pester
- Dev Containers
- PowerShell 5.1
- GitHub Advanced Security
- GitHub Code Scanning
- Dependabot
- GitHub Copilot
Recorded February 2, 2024
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