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GitHub Container Registry (GHCR): Your Solution for Image Management
Introduction: In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, containerization has revolutionized software development and deployment. A crucial aspect of containerization is efficient management of container images, which is where container registries play a vital role. In this article, we will explore the significance of container registries and how they facilitate seamless image storage and distribution within…
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GitHub Rulesets: Enhancing Codebase Integrity
Introduction: GitHub is a powerful platform that allows developers to collaborate on projects and manage their code repositories. One essential feature of GitHub is rulesets, which provide an extra layer of protection for your valuable files. In this blog post, we will explore the concept of GitHub rulesets, their advantages, and step-by-step instructions on how…
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GitHub Capabilities in Mobile – Android & iOS
Both an iOS and an Android app are available for GitHub Mobile. You can complete high-impact projects quickly and remotely with GitHub Mobile. It is safe and secure to access your GitHub data via a trusted, first-party client programme. With GitHub Mobile you can: Manage, triage, and clear notifications Read, review, and collaborate on issues…
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Security Feature & Permission Access Capabilities in GHAS (GitHub Advanced Security)
Customers who purchase an Advanced Security license from GitHub get access to additional security capabilities. The GHAS feature comparison and the permission access requirements for security features are also visible. For users of GitHub Enterprise, there is an add-on called GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS). The feature set for code scanning, secret scanning, and dependency review…
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Using Git LFS to Manage Large File Storage
Git LFS (Huge File Storage) is an open-source Git extension that was created by Atlassian, GitHub, and few other open-source contributors. It minimizes the impact of large files in your repository by downloading the necessary copies of them slowly. Small file storage was the original purpose of Git. Uploading some huge files is necessary in…
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Authenticating as a GitHub App in a GitHub Actions workflow
GitHub Apps: GitHub Apps are first-class actors within GitHub. A GitHub App acts on its own behalf, taking actions via the API directly using its own identity, which means you don’t need to maintain a bot or service account as a separate user. If you don’t need to perform actions on behalf of a user,…
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Supercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries and Pull Request comments
Job Summaries A new feature on GitHub allows you to write job descriptions for your actions. It enables you to produce markdown as part of your workflow, render it as an output of the run in the GitHub UI, and publish it as a job summary. Custom Markdown content can be used for a wide…
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Capabilities of Dependabot in GitHub with Azure Artifacts
In GitHub, while you can see a list of packages the organization level, the packages are installed to a specific repository. We can see here the instructions for pushing various package ecosystems to GitHub npm, NuGet, Maven, Docker. In case you are storing artifacts/packages in Azure Artifacts, Dependabot also supports private feeds, including Azure Artifacts.…
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Protect and discover secrets using Git-leaks
Git-leaks is a SAST tool for detecting and preventing hardcoded secrets like Passwords, API keys and tokens in GitHub Repository. Git-leaks is an easy-to-use, all-in-one solution for detecting secrets, past or present, in your code. Git-leaks would be configured as part of GitHub actions workflow for all the repositories we want to monitor for any…
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Introduction to GitHub Package Registry
GitHub Packages is a software-package hosting service, like npmjs.org, rubygems.org, or hub.docker.com, that allows you to host your packages and code in one place. You can host software packages privately or publicly and use them as dependencies in your projects. The GitHub Package Registry allows you to develop your code and host your packages in…