Thinking about migrating to GitHub Enterprise, but afraid of breaking everything? You're not alone. The road ahead is full of hidden pitfalls—downtime, data loss, security risks—but with the right partner, it doesn’t have to be a nightmare. Let’s turn your migration fears into a smooth, stress-free transition. Read on to see how PALO IT make it effortless.
PALO IT’s Proven Approach to GitHub Migration
Migrating to GitHub Enterprise can be complex, especially with large organizations' CI/CD workflows, security concerns, and potential development disruptions. As a proud GitHub Partner of the Year, PALO IT offers a structured, step-by-step approach to ensure a smooth and efficient migration:
Discovery Phase - Deep-dive Assessment & Alignment on Target State
In order for us to understand the landscape of the migration, the following activities must be conducted to have a successful migration:
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Assess Repositories & Pipelines: Evaluate existing systems to determine migration scope.
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Align Stakeholders: Explore team maturity, experience & ways of working and align with stakeholders to define migration objectives.
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Conduct Risk Assessments: Assess inherent code vulnerabilities and compliance risks to create a roadmap for automation and the modernization of secure source code.
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Evaluate Security Tools: Identify how to integrate GitHub Advanced Security¹ into your security program.
Proof-of-Value (POV) - Showcasing Tangible Benefits
By understanding the discovery phase, we can then show our clients what the actual benefits are through a Proof-of-Value. What are the metrics we are focussing in order for this POV to succeed? To conduct this phase, the following activities are conducted:
- Design Optimized Workflows: Use GitHub Actions to create a reference CI/CD pipeline that streamlines workflows.
- Security Integration: Review and incorporate security tools as needed.
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Validate Improvements: Migrate a selected set of POC repos and pipelines to gauge efficiency and address challenges in real time. Demonstrate deployment enhancements to prove GitHub’s value.
Full Migration - A Secure, End-to-End Process
When the stakeholders are satisfied with the improvements, we can perform the full migration. The following activities will then be conducted in order to complete the migration.
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Pilot & Execute: After trial migrations, We will help you and your team consolidate insights from the POV, including all scripts and processes, the corresponding architectural mapping, and technical documents, to plan, pilot, and execute the full migration.
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Hands-on Training: We will also provide potential change management and upskilling on best practices and advanced features to ensure seamless adoption of the platform.
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Activate Security Measures in the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC): Implement access control, out-of-the-box security configuration, continuous monitoring, and data leak prevention measures, with control over where your code and data are stored.
Why Partner with PALO IT for Your GitHub Enterprise Migration?
We offer extensive expertise in GitHub migrations. Here’s what we delivered for a leading global insurer:
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Seamless Migration: Successfully transitioned over 6,200 repositories and 10,000 pipelines to GitHub Enterprise.
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Cost Savings: Helped avoid platform license lock-ins, resulting in approximately USD 500,000 savings on annual licenses.
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Efficiency Gains: Integrated pipelines led to faster, more reliable deployments.
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Advanced Security¹: Leveraged GitHub’s security features to automate compliance, improve risk monitoring and integrate into the development workflow. Ensured 100% source code is covered with security configuration.
¹ GitHub Advanced Security requires additional licensing.
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