As many of you will remember, one of the news that sounded a lot during the past year and that still continues to echo these days, was Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub. At the time of the announcement of Microsoft's purchase of GitHub, The two companies promised to offer new collaborative and code-sharing experiences to developers and enterprises.
The agreement aims, among other things, to bring Microsoft's development tools and services to new audiences. As a result of this operation, Microsoft announced last September a Continuous Integration and Deployment Service (CI / CD) integrated with GitHub.
Azure Pipelines enriches GitHub use cases, it even allows developers to easily configure a CI / CD channel for any Azure application using their preferred language and environment as part of their GitHub workflow in a few simple steps.
At the same time, Microsoft has released a public preview extension to handle GitHub pull requests directly in Visual Studio Code.
But the deal is not just about bringing Microsoft products to GitHub users, but also about accelerating the use of GitHub for developers and businesses alike.
With this in mind, GitHub also announced an integration with Jira Software, Atlassian software, and the project development platform.
At the beginning of the year, the source code hosting giant decided to continue its momentum by offering a small gift to its current and future users.
Microsoft wants to push GitHub further
GitHub is by far the most popular platform to create and share the source code of applications and projects among developers, of which today is considered by some a social network for developers.
But it has some weaknesses compared to some competitors.
The platform limits, for example, the creation of private repositories (software projects not visible to the general public, but only by a handful of predefined contributors) to paying users.
Until recently, developers who wanted to create private git repositories for free had to use competing services. like Atlassian Bitbucket.
But with the announcement that GitHub just made, it could change.
“Organizations that want to be able to use GitHub in a cloud or in a self-hosted configuration can now access both at a price per user.
And with GitHub Connect, these products can be securely connected, providing a hybrid option for developers to work seamlessly in both environments, "said GitHub.
GitHub announced on January 7 that users of its free plan (GitHub Free) can now create an unlimited number of private repositories.
This it's good news for GitHub usersHowever, you should know that all repositories created with a free GitHub plan can only support up to three employees.
Therefore, this change appears to be more focused on small projects and may not be suitable for commercial use.
“GitHub Free now includes an unlimited number of private repositories.
But things changed, because now for the first time in the history of Github, developers can use GitHub for free for their private projects with up to three contributors per repository.
Many developers want to use private repositories to apply for a job offer, work on an auxiliary project, or test something privately before publishing it for everyone.
"As of today, these scenarios, and many more, are possible at no cost on GitHub",
For all intents and purposes, GitHub also mentions in the press release on this immediate change that “public repositories are always free (of course, no changes will be made) and that they include an unlimited number of contributors. »
Another change to GitHub's product policy was announced in the January 7 launch.- A unified enterprise offering called GitHub Enterprise that includes Enterprise Server (formerly GitHub Enterprise) and Enterprise Cloud (formerly GitHub Business Cloud).