GitHub Migration Accelerator: Migrate Git-Based Ecosystem to GitHub Cloud on Microsoft Azure

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, seamless and efficient migration of repositories is crucial for maintaining operational excellence, adopting AI capabilities, and ensuring continuity. Capgemini’s Migration Accelerator provides a robust solution to migrate any git-based repositories—from GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab—directly to GitHub Cloud hosted on Microsoft Azure. Our professional services streamline this transition, consolidating multiple ecosystems into GitHub Actions, enabling accelerated Azure adoption and innovation.

Key Offerings:

1. Strategic Planning:

Develop comprehensive migration strategies that address every aspect, including org structuring, user profile, and team’s configuration, ensuring a seamless and risk-free transition to GitHub Cloud.

• Repository: Identify the volumetrics of repositories and META Data.

• Integrations: Identify all integrations and articulate a clear migration strategy for repositories to minimize potential risks.

• Pipeline Transitioning: Develop comprehensive plans to seamlessly transition existing pipelines to GitHub Actions.

2. Migration:

Migrate repositories from various GitHub environments to GitHub Cloud using Capgemini’s GitHub Migration accelerator. Repository level components migration capability:

• Repositories: Entire repositories with all their contents intact.

• Branches & Commit History: Preserve every branch and commit history to maintain the integrity and traceability of your development efforts.

• Topics: Tags that help categorize and discover repositories.

• Description: A summary of what the repository is about.

• Team mapping: Teams with exact access level.

• Pull Requests: Seamlessly migrate pull requests to keep collaboration and code review workflows uninterrupted.

• Variables & Secrets: Securely stored environment variables and secrets for use in workflows (placeholders for secrets).

• Repository Rulesets: Rules that enforce policies on repositories.

• Projects: Kanban-style boards for project management.

• Issues: Track bugs, enhancements, and tasks.

• Webhooks: Automated messages sent to a URL in response to certain events.

• Pages: Static websites directly from a repository.

• Pre-Commit Hook: Scripts that run before a commit is finalized.

• Gist: Shareable snippets of code or text.

Organization level components:

• Team & Collaborators: Moving teams and collaborators between repositories or organizations along with IDP mapping capability.

• Organization RuleSets: Policies that apply to all repositories within an organization.

Centralized Pipeline Setup:

• GitHub Actions: Automatically set up GitHub Actions pipelines through centralized GitHub Actions workflows if new pipelines are required, ensuring continuous integration and delivery processes are up and running without delay.

3. Managed Services - post migration support:

We support our clients establishing best practices of GitHub Actions and GitHub Advanced Security after migration to GitHub Cloud on an on-going basis.

• Continuous Ecosystem Management: Provide expert support for the GitHub ecosystem after migration to ensure ongoing success.

• Security & Access Optimization: Appropriate security controls, address branch issues, and adjust access permissions as needed post-migration.

• Pipeline Enhancement: Offer continuous support and optimization for GitHub Actions pipelines, including new additions and refinements to previously migrated processes.

Benefits of migrating through Capgemini Migration Accelerator:

• Enhanced Efficiency: Automate migration processes to minimize manual effort and reduce errors, empowering your teams to focus on innovation and leverage Azure AI capabilities such as Copilot.

• Scalability: Our solution is engineered to support migrations of any size - from small projects to large enterprise-level repositories.

• Operational Continuity: Smooth transition with minimal disruption to development activities, preserving all essential data and workflows within your Azure environment.

• Robust Validation: Leverage automated pre- and post-migration comparisons to ensure repository integrity.

• Intuitive Ease of Use: Experience a straightforward setup process designed for simplicity and efficiency.