Marcel de Vries

Marcel de Vries is the cofounder and global managing director and chief technology officer of the Xebia Microsoft service line, a company that is driving the DevOps way of work in software delivery. He has a passion for technology and empowers organizations to drive innovation and productivity. Marcel always focused on application lifecycle management, even before the platforms that supported this entered the market. He spends a lot of his time helping organizations implement DevOps practices, using platforms like Azure DevOps and now GitHub. Marcel is a frequently requested public speaker at well-known industry events, such as Microsoft Build, Microsoft Ignite, Visual Studio Live!, and Techorama, to name a few. As a Microsoft MVP for over 17 years consecutively and a Microsoft regional director since 2008, you can always contact him to talk about subjects like cloud adoption strategies, business development, DevOps, cloud computing, microservices, containers, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Marcel is also the author of many courses on DevOps, cloud-native software development, and testing for Pluralsight.

books by Marcel de Vries

GitHub Actions in Action
  • October 2024
  • ISBN 9781633437302
  • 256 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / DevOps / Continuous Integration and Deployment / Git

GitHub Actions in Action teaches you how to build automated delivery pipelines in GitHub. You’ll start with simple examples that demonstrate workflow and action basics, and then you’ll dive into platform architecture, security, and workflow runtime details. As you go, you’ll build a full CI/CD pipeline, optimizing for compliance, performance, and costs. You’ll even create shareable actions for the GitHub marketplace.