https://nickperkins.au/tags/devops/ Recent content in Devops on Nick Perkins Hugo en Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:30:00 +1000 https://nickperkins.au/article/github-enterprise-reality-check/ Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:30:00 +1000 https://nickperkins.au/article/github-enterprise-reality-check/ Over the past couple of years, I’ve been working extensively with GitHub Enterprise in large organisational settings. While GitHub has built an exceptional developer experience and continues to ship features at an impressive pace, the reality is that GitHub Enterprise still has significant gaps when it comes to enterprise-scale operations. Let me share what I’ve discovered about the current state of GitHub Enterprise from a platform engineering perspective. Photo by James Harrison on Unsplash The Repository-Centric Challenge GitHub’s architecture is fundamentally repository-focused, which works brilliantly for individual projects and small teams. https://nickperkins.au/article/interactive-ai-copilot-training/ Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://nickperkins.au/article/interactive-ai-copilot-training/ One of my current projects is a migration from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions. I saw a challenge: how to effectively train DevOps teams on new tools in an engaging, practical way? Traditional docs and tutorials often miss the mark. So, I experimented: using GitHub Copilot’s Agent Mode to build an interactive, AI-powered training platform. The result was a self-paced, conversational learning experience, guiding users through complex migration scenarios like having an AI tutor. https://nickperkins.au/code/infrastructure-as-code/ Sun, 18 Apr 2021 12:53:08 +1000 https://nickperkins.au/code/infrastructure-as-code/ Over the last couple of months I’ve been working on a project for a containerised orchestration platform using Infrastructure as Code. This has meant I’ve spent most of my time working with Terraform. What is Terraform? I could write a couple of paragraphs about what Terraform is and what it does, but I think they put it best: Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services.