Google Cloud partners with GitHub on software development
Friday - July 27, 2018 12:30 pm ,
Category : BUSINESS
San Francisco July 27 (IANS) Google has announced a partnership with Microsoft-owned GitHub to make a crucial element of modern software development Continuous Integration fast and easy.
As part of the new collaboration GitHub a major software development platform is getting connected to Google s Cloud Build the company s new CI/Continuous Delivery (CD) platform
"Together we will provide fast frictionless and convenient Continuous Integration (CI) for any repository on GitHub integrated directly into the GitHub developer workflow " Melody Meckfessel Vice President Engineering Google Cloud wrote in a blog post on Thursday.
The integration of Cloud Build with GitHub makes it quick to adopt CI and validate changes by integrating code early and often bringing a host of benefits to developers directly from their GitHub workflow.
"GitHub is excited to partner with Google to make CI for cloud-native application development painless. The ability to use Cloud Build for CI as a part of the GitHub workflow is just the start of this partnership and we look forward to building more in the future with Google " Jason Warner Senior Vice President of Technology at GitHub wrote in a separate post.
Google and GitHub have a long history of working together.
"We have a shared belief in the principles and practices of open source and a shared vision of productive developers and software teams. We have worked together on improvements to the Git client and protocol as well as other projects " Meckfessel said adding that Googlers contributed to nearly 30 000 repositor on GitHub last year.
Microsoft in June announced the acquisition of GitHub for $7.5 billion.
GitHub platform hosts a growing network of developers in nearly every country representing more than 1.5 million companies across healthcare manufacturing technology financial services retail and more.
--IANS gb/sed
As part of the new collaboration GitHub a major software development platform is getting connected to Google s Cloud Build the company s new CI/Continuous Delivery (CD) platform
"Together we will provide fast frictionless and convenient Continuous Integration (CI) for any repository on GitHub integrated directly into the GitHub developer workflow " Melody Meckfessel Vice President Engineering Google Cloud wrote in a blog post on Thursday.
The integration of Cloud Build with GitHub makes it quick to adopt CI and validate changes by integrating code early and often bringing a host of benefits to developers directly from their GitHub workflow.
"GitHub is excited to partner with Google to make CI for cloud-native application development painless. The ability to use Cloud Build for CI as a part of the GitHub workflow is just the start of this partnership and we look forward to building more in the future with Google " Jason Warner Senior Vice President of Technology at GitHub wrote in a separate post.
Google and GitHub have a long history of working together.
"We have a shared belief in the principles and practices of open source and a shared vision of productive developers and software teams. We have worked together on improvements to the Git client and protocol as well as other projects " Meckfessel said adding that Googlers contributed to nearly 30 000 repositor on GitHub last year.
Microsoft in June announced the acquisition of GitHub for $7.5 billion.
GitHub platform hosts a growing network of developers in nearly every country representing more than 1.5 million companies across healthcare manufacturing technology financial services retail and more.
--IANS gb/sed
