Modernizing/Migrating Repositories at Scale with Elevate and GitHub WAF is a five-part blog series that explores the strategic, technical, and operational dimensions of repository modernization in large-scale engineering organizations. The series covers everything you need to know to migrate to GitHub quickly, efficiently --- and with confidence.
Part 1: The Case for GitHub Migration & Modernization - Why Legacy Repos Hold You Back
Why Legacy Repos Hold You Back, which examines the business and technical challenges of migrating from platforms like GitLab and Bitbucket. It highlights the complexity of discovery, planning, and execution in the absence of automation, and underscores the risks of delay. This opening post makes the case for a structured, roadmap-driven approach to modernization.
Part 2: Automation as the Catalyst - Elevate’s Approach to Migration
Automation is at the center of large scale mirgations. In this post, the focus shifts to how Elevate automates the end-to-end migration process. This includes capabilities like repository inventory, activity analysis, and pipeline complexity scoring. The post also explores features such as dry-run simulations, permission migration, and scheduling, showing how automation not only reduces risk but also accelerates adoption of the GitHub ecosystem.
Part 3: Governance and Compliance at Scale - GitHub WAF in Action
GitHub WAF in Action introduces WAF and its critical role in enforcing best practices across large codebases. It explains how Elevate enables compliance scoring across multiple dimensions—security, architecture, collaboration, and governance—and includes examples of compliance dashboards and policy adherence metrics to illustrate how organizations can maintain control at scale.
Part 4: From Insight to Action - Portfolio Management and Developer Enablement
The next topic explores how Elevate supports platform engineering teams through workload designers and self-service portals. It discusses how teams can use repository insights and compliance data to prioritize modernization efforts, and how portfolio management helps align those efforts with broader business goals.
Part 5: Pipelines, Complexity, and the Human Touch - Elevate's AI Agent
The final series post delves into how Elevate audits pipeline complexity and assesses migration readiness. It introduces the conversational AI agent that helps teams tag, classify, and batch repositories for modernization. The series concludes with a forward-looking vision for continuous modernization and the future of intelligent DevOps.
