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Find general updates here on new content, feature enhancements, and improvements that help teams architect and optimize deployments of the tools that support their development communities.
- New Content: Actions Runner Controller (ARC) best practices - Published an opinionated guidance for operating ARC on Kubernetes, including recommendations for runner images, configuration, observability, and security trade-offs
- New Content: Securing developer workspace - Published an design guidance for hardening developer workspaces, including identity and authorization, workspace isolation, and signed commit practices
- Update: Securing GitHub Actions workflows - Added opinionated guidance for OIDC, repository rulesets, and safer workflow patterns, with specific recommendations for public repository security
- Update: Repository Management Enhancement - Updated the "Managing repositories at scale" article with opinionated guidance on adopting rulesets and custom properties to meet business objectives, including actionable strategies for governance at scale
- Update: GitHub Actions Policy Updates - Updated the GitHub Actions recommendations with new policy capabilities and more prescriptive governance and security guidance for managing workflows at scale
- New Content: GitHub Copilot Enterprise Administration - Published an enterprise playbook for managing GitHub Copilot Premium Request Units (PRUs), including budget configuration, KPI targets, monitoring, and cost control strategies
- New Content: Security Alert Management - Published a scenario for prioritizing security alert remediation using GitHub's built-in metadata and organizational context, including practical guidance on implementing GitHub's security campaigns and vulnerability triage workflows
- New Content: Champion Program - Published a recommendation for champion programs that empower engaged employees to guide peers through AI-driven change.
- New Content: Azure DevOps Migration Guide - Published migration scenarios and playbooks for transitioning from Azure DevOps to GitHub, including phased approaches, feature comparisons, and practical guidance for translating Azure DevOps settings to GitHub equivalents
- New Content: Engineering System Success Framework - Published the Engineering System Success Framework to help organizations evaluate Copilot business value, including design principles, checklists, metrics, implementation phases, anti-patterns, and intervention strategies
- Site Improvements - Introduced a new Copilot Chat Widget that provides interactive assistance for users
- New Content: GitHub Actions Scalability - Published guidance for scaling GitHub Actions reusability in enterprise environments, including best practices for workflow optimization, action management, and enterprise-wide deployment
- New Content: Repository Migration Essentials - Introduced a generalized repository migration checklist covering pre-planning, testing, execution, and post-migration, designed to serve as a single source of truth across migration approaches
- Design Principle Updates - Expanded real-world examples across pillars, including clearer guidance on pull request best practices, early vulnerability scanning, and multi-region deployment considerations
- Checklists 2.0 - Overhauled the assessment checklists to align with recent GitHub product updates and introduced tiers to help teams prioritize actions based on maturity
- Fixes & Refinements - Improved clarity and usability with refinements to pillar content, navigation, homepage layout, and the hosting template for simpler ongoing maintenance
- General Availability (GA) and Well-Architected MVP Launch - Transitioned from beta to GA with a fully published structure around the five pillars, including curated examples and illustrations that demonstrate practical implementations
- Initial Tooling & Assessment Checklists - Provided downloadable checklists for customers to self-assess alignment with the framework and gathered early adoption feedback to inform Checklists 2.0
- Design Principles and Content Highlights - Published an in-depth overview of the five pillars (Productivity, Collaboration, Application Security, Governance, and Architecture), co-authored an initial set of design principles with KPMG and our Partner Community, and added a high-level scenario for teams starting with GitHub Enterprise
- Early Feedback Incorporations - Streamlined site layouts and navigation based on beta feedback, and expanded scenario guidance including scaling Git repositories and enforcing GHAS at scale
- Partner & Ecosystem Growth: Ongoing partner showcases, workshops, and contributions will introduce new specialized assessment offerings
- Deeper AI Integration: Expanding GitHub Copilot insights and AI-based recommendations to cover governance, security, and productivity checks
- Advanced Scenarios & Recommendations: Adding guides on large-scale workflows, compliance-first deployments, and hybrid architectures
- Continuous Feedback: Regularly soliciting community input through partner channels and real-world customer engagements to shape new content
We're committed to continuous improvement of GitHub Well-Architected. If you have questions or feedback, please reach out to your Partner or our GitHub Support and Services teams.
Thank you for your interest in building resilient, scalable development practices!