Tag: DevOps

All the articles with the tag "DevOps".

• Write Access for Everyone, CODEOWNERS for Real Control

  Published: 14 Sep, 2026

  • 8 min read

  Managing write access repo by repo doesn't scale in GitHub Enterprise. Here's how organisation-level rulesets and CODEOWNERS replace it.

• Enterprise Policies and Org-Level Copilot Governance in GitHub Enterprise (Part 4)

  Published: 7 Sep, 2026

  • 4 min read

  Getting access right is only half the job. Part 4 of the GHE admin series covering what enterprise policy actually controls once teams have licences, and where governance choices commonly trip people up.

• GitHub Copilot Licensing: Business vs Enterprise (Part 3)

  Published: 31 Aug, 2026

  • 3 min read

  Assign a Copilot licence at the enterprise team level and you'll only ever hand out Business licences, not Enterprise. Part 3 of a short GHE admin series on where licensing actually has to happen.

• Using Enterprise Teams Within GitHub Enterprise (Part 2)

  Published: 24 Aug, 2026

  • 3 min read

  An enterprise team populated from your IdP is only useful once you know what to actually do with it. Part 2 of a short GHE admin series covering enterprise teams vs org teams, and assigning a team to an org.

• IdP Setup, Provisioning and Enterprise Teams Backed by IdP Groups (Part 1)

  Published: 17 Aug, 2026

  • 4 min read

  Manual team membership doesn't hold up at scale. Part 1 of a short GHE admin series covering what you can actually see and configure from the Entra side, and where enterprise teams pick up from there.

• Logs Tell You What Broke. Traces Tell You Why.

  Published: 10 Aug, 2026

  • 4 min read

  Structured logging fixes half the observability problem. Here's why distributed traces cover the half it can't, and how OpenTelemetry ties the two together.

• Standardising Observability with OpenTelemetry

  Published: 27 Jul, 2026

  • 7 min read

  Inconsistent logging and observability is a problem you don't notice until production is on fire. OpenTelemetry is the standard that fixes it — here's what it is and how to get started in .NET.

• Logging Isn't for Developers — and It Should Be a PR Requirement

  Published: 2 Jun, 2026

  • 6 min read

  Bad logging doesn't show up until something goes wrong in production. Here's why logging should be treated as a first-class concern and reviewed in every PR.

• Why Hot Fixes Aren't So Hot

  Published: 13 May, 2026

  • 5 min read

  Hotfixes feel like a quick win — but in a long-lived branch model they introduce branch divergence, testing gaps, and audit risk. Here's why rollback should always come first.

• CI vs CD - Why Dev Owns CI and Ops Owns CD

  Published: 21 Apr, 2026

  • 3 min read

  CI is about producing a trustworthy artifact; CD is about safely operating production. Splitting ownership across Dev and Ops makes each stage stronger.