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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Module 1 – Advanced Git & GitHub Workflows
- Core advanced Git concepts and repository administration
- Comparing branching strategies: GitFlow versus trunk-based development
- Techniques for rebasing, merging, and cherry-picking
- Utilizing interactive rebase
- Strategies for managing and resolving complex merge conflicts
- Handling tags, releases, and version control
- Investigating Git history and performing recovery tasks
- Best practices optimized for large-scale development teams
Module 2 – Advanced Pull Requests & Collaboration
- Designing efficient pull request workflows
- Implementing draft pull requests and structured review strategies
- Configuring CODEOWNERS
- Establishing branch protection and rulesets
- Setting up required reviews and status checks
- Managing large-scale or long-running pull requests
- Creating issue and pull request templates
- Leveraging GitHub Projects
- Administering teams, permissions, and repository governance
- Practical exercise: Designing an enterprise-level collaboration workflow
Module 3 – GitHub Actions & CI/CD
- Understanding the GitHub Actions architecture
- Defining workflows, jobs, steps, and triggers
- Managing secrets, variables, and environments
- Implementing conditional execution and job dependencies
- Applying matrix strategies
- Working with artifacts and caching mechanisms
- Building reusable workflows and composite actions
- Debugging and optimizing workflows
- Constructing CI pipelines
- Setting up automated testing and build workflows
- Managing multi-environment deployments
- Automating release processes
- Practical exercise: Building an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline
Module 4 – GitHub Security & Automation
- Exploring GitHub’s built-in security capabilities
- Using Dependabot for dependency management
- Implementing dependency review processes
- Utilizing secret scanning and push protection
- Conducting code scanning
- Establishing security policies and vulnerability management
- Addressing supply-chain security concerns
- Using the GitHub CLI
- Overview of the GitHub REST API
- Integrating Webhooks and third-party tools
- Automating repositories, issues, and pull requests
- Practical scenarios focused on security and automation
Module 5 – End-to-End GitHub Workflow
- Designing a comprehensive GitHub development workflow
- Defining repository and branching strategies
- Establishing pull request and code review processes
- Implementing automated testing
- Configuring CI/CD pipelines
- Integrating security checks
- Managing releases effectively
- Troubleshooting and optimization techniques
- Team-based practical exercise
- Summary and Q&A session
Optional Module – GitHub Copilot
- Exploring GitHub Copilot capabilities and its workflow
- Integrating Copilot Chat with IDEs
- Crafting effective prompts for developers
- Generating and explaining code
- Refactoring and code optimization
- Automating unit test generation
- Debugging with Copilot assistance
- Generating technical documentation
- Utilizing Copilot for pull requests and code reviews
- Ensuring responsible and secure use of AI-generated code
- Hands-on Copilot exercises
Requirements
Participants are expected to bring the following background:
- Hands-on experience with Git and GitHub
- A solid understanding of repositories, branches, commits, and pull requests
- Basic familiarity with GitHub Actions is advantageous, though not mandatory
- A working knowledge of standard software development workflows
Testimonials (1)
Easy going trainer, very knowledgeable and approachable.
