Simplified & Expedited GitLab to GitHub Migration through Automation
GitHub is highly favored by customers due to its exceptional developer experience and modern tools, which greatly enhances productivity and supports advanced engineering processes. For those who choose GitHub, our team of skilled consultants at InCycle will provide comprehensive support throughout your entire migration process, from pre-requisites and test migrations to the final production cut over. Additionally, our experts will offer valuable training and coaching to help you make the most out of the newly implemented GitHub platform.
As a leading provider of GitHub migration services, we have developed proven tools and strategies that allows us to seamlessly and quickly migrate customers from GitLab to GitHub. Through heavy use of automation we deliver flawless migrations, ensuring a seamless transfer of code and history with absolutely zero downtime. Book your no-cost no-commitment discovery call today!
Enterprise Migration to GitHub Platform
Migration customers benefit from expedited discovery, planning and migration of repositories and pipelines from GitLab while reducing risk through automation driven and orchestrated via the InCycle platform.
Platform and Migration Overview
1. Discovery and Planning
Discovering and understanding dependencies between repositories, pipelines and related artifacts is foundational to a succeful migration. InCycle's GitHub Migration platform automatically creates communication and execution plans to expedite and reduce risk in migration activities.
Including:
- Business context evaluation
- Full inventory of SCM (repos, pipelines) – potential scope
- Prioritization based on technical complexity (active/inactive repos, repo content (e.g., large binary files) and business value (costs/opportunities)
- Automated recommendations
- Migration plan builder with business case
This approach delivers a streamlined and articulate plan designed to sidestep any disruptions or misunderstandings. It strategically highlights critical tasks while illuminating potential obstacles, paving the way for a swift and successful migration!
2. Repository Migration Execution
Our specialized migration platform streamlines the process of transferring repositories from GitLab to GitHub Enterprise. This includes the automated resolution of obstacles, the creation of new repositories on the target platform, and the seamless migration of code along with its associated assets.
Our platform doesn't just automate the migration of repositories; it masterfully orchestrates all key migration activities, ensuring a smooth and efficient process from start to finish. With our cutting-edge technology, we deploy the target repository structure on GitHub Enterprise, meticulously organizing and setting up each repository to mirror the original setup on GitLab. This meticulous approach guarantees that the integrity of your projects is maintained, allowing your teams to hit the ground running on GitHub Enterprise without missing a beat.
3. Pipeline Migration Execution
InCycle's tailor-made platform swiftly facilitates and accelerates the transition of CI/CD pipelines from GitLab to GitHub Actions. Our team of seasoned consultants will:
- Programmatically migrate pipelines
- Leverage pre-existing pipeline assets
- Expedite consumption billing of runners.
- Minimize down time for teams
- Quickly deploy applications
4. Migration dashboard
Both our professionals and customers alike will benefit from a customizable dashboard designed to streamline the management of the migration process. This innovative tool focuses on tracking and resolvong potential errors, migration velocity, strategic planning initiatives, and team GitHub adoption.
- Contextualized to meet organization specific metrics
- Visibility into migration progress and challenges
- Support optimized planning based on objective measurement
At InCycle, DevOps is deeply ingrained in our company culture, shaping everything we do. Whether it's pioneering new ideas or revamping existing applications, our implementation of DevOps strategies with GitHub empowers companies to accelerate their delivery timelines, ensuring the highest quality and reliable products and services. By fostering collaboration, boosting productivity, encouraging experimentation, and automating processes from development to delivery and operations, we enable modern engineering practices. Our key to success lies in optimizing the developer experience, unlocking their full potential in driving innovation.
For customers who want to take their development practices to the next level, a DevOps pipeline with CI/CD is the perfect solution. With the guidance of InCycle's top-notch GitHub and CI/CD experts, we will help you revolutionize your integration and deployment using the power of GitHub Actions, including runners, scale sets, and governance. This will supercharge your velocity and optimize every aspect of your modern application's planning, development, release, and operations.
InCycle's expert DevOps architects go above and beyond to design and implement cutting-edge application pipelines that are fully equipped with automated build, testing, and deployment capabilities. Our valued customers will have complete traceability, allowing them to see every aspect of the build, including code changes, reviews, and test results. These meticulously developed pipelines are designed to support governance and accommodate multiple stages, enabling teams to deliver exceptional value through more frequent and high-quality deployments. With our automated CI/CD solutions, your development practices will soar to new heights, revolutionizing every step of your modern application's journey, from planning and development to release and operations.
Strengthen your security posture with GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) to safeguard against technology vulnerabilities and malicious actors. To implement GHAS, our team of experts will walk you through every step of the process, ensuring a customized implementation that aligns with your business objectives.
InCycle will assist you in discovering and harnessing the most effective techniques, cutting-edge configurations, and invaluable insights offered by GHAS. Customers can enhance their security measures with GHAS by leveraging Dependabot, code and secret scanning, adhering to industry standards, and gaining access to comprehensive reporting. InCycle, as a trusted partner of GitHub, is dedicated to accelerating your organization's implementation while bolstering your security stance.
If you haven't been living under a rock (desk?), it's evident that generative AI is paving the way for the future of software development. In an exciting collaboration, GitHub and OpenAI joined forces to bring us GitHub Copilot, a groundbreaking generative AI development tool powered by OpenAI's Codex model. This incredible tool acts as a virtual pair programmer, assisting developers in writing code faster and with less effort. By analyzing comments and code, GitHub Copilot offers instant suggestions for individual lines and even entire functions. It's clear that AI is revolutionizing the field of engineering, accelerating various aspects of the development process, from code creation to pull request submissions and beyond.
Accelerating Developer Coding with GitHub
With AI at our fingertips, companies have the opportunity to redefine developer productivity. By automating manual tasks and simplifying complex work throughout the developer lifecycle, AI empowers developers to focus on the bigger picture: creating innovative solutions and driving enterprise progress.
Personalize Copilot for Your Team
To maximize developer productivity, InCycle will personalize GitHub Copilot for every team, project, and repository, instantly modernizing your entire software development lifecycle. The ultimate goal is to leverage the vast amount of data and insights within the organization to enhance engineering's responsiveness, ensuring that every idea can swiftly become a reality. By enabling current developer environments to support modern practices like AI and Co-Pilot, developer productivity skyrockets!
