Git & DevOps

You can now use GitHub Actions to make CI/ CD pipelines. Read 7 GitHub Actions best practices you should adopt, including on dependencies, secrets, and more.

Git push --force command is often considered dangerous to use. This tutorial shows you how to use git push --force the right way. You'll also learn new, safer alternatives, and master the skills of restoring a broken branch.

So you wish to do "git create branch branch-name"? This tutorial will show you the right git commands for creating branches, naming and renaming git branches.

So you wish to "git remove untracked files"? This tutorial will show you the right git commands to remove unused files in your working directory.

So you wish to "git undo merge" in git? This tutorial will show you the right git commands to cancel a merge to master, even after it’s been committed.

So you wish to "git unstage" files in git? This tutorial will show you the right git commands to remove all or specific staged files from index.

So you wish to do a "git force pull"? This tutorial will show you the right git commands to discard your local changes and replace them with your latest commit.

A look at all the significant product updates, events, and milestones Datree has achieved in 2019.

Our secret pub crawl party during AWS Re:Invent conference in Vegas

If you’re using AWS Lambda functions, there’s a chance that you recently got an email about Node 8.10 reaching the end of its life. Learn what it means and what you should do next to be prepared to migrate your Node runtime declarations.

The git error "Fatal: not a git repository" occurs when you attempt to run a git command but weren't inside a git repository. Read this article for ways to solve this error.

The git error "Fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories" occurs when a user action, such as git merge, can cause the rewriting of history data. It is git's way to ensure the user fully understands the result of their action. Read on how to solve this error.

The git error "Remote origin already exists" occurs when you attempt to create a link to a remote repository called origin but a remote with that name is already configured. Read this article on how to fix it.

Top 10 things you should look out for when pushing Kubernetes configurations from development through your deployment process to ensure security and excellence.

Guide to migration from Python 2, whose end-of-life date is Jan 1st, 2020, to Python 3. This guide is focused on the infrastructure configurations you're going to need to review and modify to ensure your migration to Python 3 goes smoothly.

These Docker best practices ensure your Dockerfile is secure and lightweight. Apply them to improve container stability, security, and speed up deployments.

What is the definition of DevOps? The bottom line: DevOps is about giving ownership to a person end-to-end in terms of how to build the software and ship it.

Datree is on GitHub Marketplace. if you’re already on GitHub, installing Datree is a seamless few-clicks experience, and the billing is unified with your other GitHub apps.

Referencing an issue tracker ticket number in every code change is a development best practice. Watch this on-demand webinar from Datree and CircleCI on the topic of traceability.

Datree can help maintainers ensure contributors follow rules like limiting commit subject lines to 50 characters so the entire commit message title will show on GitHub commits history UI.

If you ever tried to get developers to fill out a pull request description template, you’d want this policy rule from Datree.

Use Datree's Docker image policy rule to help Devs avoid using Docker images with security vulnerabilities, or deprecated images.

Using GitHub? Read this GitHub pricing guide: how to switch from per-repo to per-user pricing in the most cost efficient way

Last Friday a security breach involving git repositories was reported. Hackers broke into private repos across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, wiped them, and asking the

10 most useful git commands guide: the intuitive and actual commands for common git tasks like renaming a branch, removing files, and undoing changes, and more.

Check out: Best practices on managing secrets using AWS or Hashicorp Vault. Also see: sample code we use at Datree.io to inject secrets into our application.

Watch this on-demand webinar on how to manage secret keys and credentials in your code. TLDR: don't push them to your source control.

Best practices for writing git commit messages - cheatsheet included. Read how to optimize git commit messages to improve your development productivity.

New to Github Actions? Want to write it in Node.js instead of shell scripts? Check out this guide and start automating your workflow the easy way!

We've made Datree better: more policy rules like block out-of-date pull requests, ability to enable rule on any future new repositories, and more insights in status report.

I was working as a developer on a 3-person team. We all wrote in JS and could choose whatever open source we saw fit. Makes sense, right? Except we ended up with 3 parsers in a team of 3.

An interview with Alex Casalboni, a Serverless Champion, on the serverless technology, AWS Lambda, and DevOps.

"I’ve had my fair share of rewrites and refactors, ranging from reverse engineering a 1000+ lines of a single PHP file and rewriting it as a microservice, to better scaling it for performance." A guide to code rewriting vs. refactoring.

When considering AWS Neptune one has to make sure a graph database is the best storage structure for the dataset. My thoughts from a recent AWS Summit TLV presentation.

Following my talk at the AWS Summit Tel-Aviv 2018, I’m sharing our end to end journey of migrating our production environment to ECS Fargate. Why

Code components are the building blocks used to build applications, forming the basis of the code that creates your products. Example: NodeJS packages.