Destination: GitHub Actions

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Meet us at GitHub Universe, October 28 and 29 at Fort Mason

This year GitHub Universe is back at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco on October 28 and 29, and we're excited to see you there! Our theme for the event is Destination: GitHub Actions.
It's all about finishing your migration to GitHub so you can adopt agentic SDLC. Most enterprises settled the question of where their code lives a long time ago. Code was migrated yet legacy pipelines remained unchanged and actually grew in complexity. Those legacy pipelines are tech debt that continues to slow organizations down as they enhance productivity, harden security, and build out their agentic SDLC.
Consider your stop at GitHub Universe as a layover on your journey. The CodeCargo team will be your pilots, flight staff, maintenance crews, and air traffic controllers that will help guide you to your destination.
Arriving at this destination is just like a 3-leg trip. Here's how we will get you there.

Leg 1: Hop on the Plane (Migrate to GitHub)

Our Migration Assistant product ingests your legacy CI/CD platform, walks you through a mapping wizard, and converts your pipelines into GitHub Actions workflows with AI assistance. We use scalable coding agents to perform your pipeline modernization and migration at scale.
Migration Assistant supports Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and other CI/CD pipelines and uses three discrete phases:
  1. Import. Run the importer against your live instance or upload a JSON export. From Jenkins that's jobs, pipelines, plugins, and credentials. From Azure DevOps it's YAML pipelines, classic build and release definitions, variable groups, service connections, and templates. Large ADO organizations can be scoped with a CSV so you bring in only what you need.
  2. Standard Pipeline Library. The platform automatically maps your repositories, legacy pipelines, credentials, shared libraries, tasks, and other pipeline primitives. It runs a deep analysis on your pipelines to identify reusable components and turns those into GitHub Actions and reusable workflows. It's basically an in-place modernization.
  3. Migrate. Launch a bulk migration for all of your pipelines, or schedule them in batches. Our AI migration agents will convert your legacy pipelines into GitHub Actions workflows using your newly-built Standard Pipeline Library. This enhances standardization and reduces maintenance costs across your organization. If you don't want to migrate your legacy pipelines and simply rewire them, our agents can provide the necessary code changes to support that as well.
You retain full control throughout this process. Developers and Platform Engineers can review pull requests, tweak code modifications, and test pipelines before they are merged to your main branches. This lets you run a big bang migration or break it down by business unit or even team.

Leg 2: Pass through Immigration (Optimization and Governance)

This is where most migrations stop, and interestingly enough its where organizations can gain the most clearly-defined value. Now that your legacy pipelines have been migrated to GitHub Actions and workflows, you'll start using them in production. The CodeCargo platform keeps track of metrics, general functionality, and your specific corporate compliance and governance needs for your pipelines.
After the platform establishes your Actions baseline, our Actions Advisor module will start making recommendations to help optimize and enhance your new automations by doing the following:
- Overview gives you unique actions, reusable workflows, and version coverage across your entire GitHub estate. You can easily track which versions of internal and 1st/3rd party Actions your organization is using, including how updates progress through your system.
- Actions and Workflows Explorer renders an interactive map of usage within your organization. Discover how many versions of each Action or workflow are used, and perform bulk upgrades for security purposes and compliance.
- Standardize groups similar workflows into patterns, continually creates new elements for your Standard Pipeline Library, and recommends enhancements to fine-tune your workflows.
- Compliance Center lets you describe your specific security, compliance, and governance requirements, then scores every workflow against those criteria. So if a developer creates a new build workflow, but doesn't push metadata to the proper server, CodeCargo will flag the missing behavior in the workflow and create a new pull request to fix it.

Leg 3: Pick up your Luggage (Secure SDLC)

SLSA and "secure SDLC" usually show up on a slide deck: there's a maturity model, a target level, and a spreadsheet tracking who complies. However, the properties those frameworks actually describe are things your pipelines either have or don't. In addition, organizations generally have to create their own Actions and workflows to handle their specific use-cases.
CodeCargo will guide you through this process, create the underlying Actions and workflows necessary for build and deployment provenance, create the necessary code changes for all of your pipelines, and then track progress. Gone are the days of emailing an Excel spreadsheet to a distribution list with 500+ people - now you can track progress using a single pane of glass, and immediately fix any deviations from policy.
At this point - you've completed your migration to GitHub, completely modernized your pipeline estate, created a secure software supply chain, and are ready to completely adopt an agentic SDLC. CodeCargo turns this from a 10-year pipe dream to a discrete, achievable end-state during this calendar year.

Learn More

To learn more, find us at GitHub Universe or reach out to info@codecargo.com and we'll be happy to set up a call to start your journey today.
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CodeCargo Team

The CodeCargo team writes about GitHub workflow automation, developer productivity, and DevOps best practices.