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Course Outline
Module 1 – Advanced Git & GitHub Workflows
- Complex Git concepts and advanced repository administration
- Comparative analysis of branching strategies: GitFlow versus trunk-based development
- Techniques for rebasing, merging, and cherry-picking
- Utilizing interactive rebase for history refinement
- Strategies for managing and resolving intricate merge conflicts
- Version control through tags, releases, and semantic versioning
- Investigating Git history and recovering lost work
- Best practices optimized for large-scale engineering teams
Module 2 – Advanced Pull Requests & Collaboration
- Architecting efficient pull request pipelines
- Leveraging draft pull requests and structured review methodologies
- Implementing CODEOWNERS for automated ownership
- Configuring branch protection rules and advanced rulesets
- Enforcing required reviews and status check validations
- Tactics for handling extensive or long-lived pull requests
- Standardizing contributions via issue and pull request templates
- Utilizing GitHub Projects for task tracking
- Governing teams, permissions, and repository access
- Practical exercise: Architecting an enterprise-grade collaboration framework
Module 3 – GitHub Actions & CI/CD
- Understanding the underlying architecture of GitHub Actions
- Defining workflows, jobs, steps, and event triggers
- Managing secrets, variables, and deployment environments
- Implementing conditional logic and managing job dependencies
- Scaling builds using matrix strategies
- Optimizing performance through artifacts and caching mechanisms
- Creating reusable workflows and composite actions for modularity
- Debugging techniques and performance optimization
- Constructing robust continuous integration pipelines
- Automating test suites and build processes
- Orchestrating multi-environment deployment strategies
- Automating the release lifecycle
- Practical exercise: Engineering a complete end-to-end CI/CD pipeline
Module 4 – GitHub Security & Automation
- Exploring native GitHub security features
- Leveraging Dependabot for proactive dependency management
- Integrating dependency review workflows
- Deploying secret scanning and push protection mechanisms
- Running code scanning for vulnerability detection
- Formulating security policies and managing vulnerabilities
- Hardening the software supply chain
- Command-line automation using the GitHub CLI
- Overview of the GitHub REST API
- Implementing webhooks and third-party integrations
- Scripting automation for repositories, issues, and pull requests
- Practical exercises in security hardening and workflow automation
Module 5 – End-to-End GitHub Workflow
- Designing a holistic GitHub development lifecycle
- Establishing repository structure and branching policies
- Refining the pull request and code review cycle
- Integrating automated testing suites
- Connecting the CI/CD pipeline
- Embedding security validation checks
- Streamlining release management processes
- Advanced troubleshooting and performance tuning
- Collaborative team-based practical exercise
- Course summary and open Q&A session
Optional Module – GitHub Copilot
- Overview of GitHub Copilot capabilities and workflow integration
- Using Copilot Chat and IDE extensions
- Crafting effective prompts for developer productivity
- Generating and explaining code snippets
- Assisted refactoring and optimization
- Automatic unit test generation
- Debugging assistance using Copilot
- Automated documentation creation
- Enhancing pull requests and code reviews with AI
- Best practices for responsible and secure AI-assisted coding
- Hands-on exercises with GitHub Copilot
Requirements
To fully benefit from this training, participants are expected to have:
- Hands-on experience working with Git and GitHub
- A solid grasp of core concepts such as repositories, branches, commits, and pull requests
- Foundational knowledge of GitHub Actions, which is advantageous but not mandatory
- General familiarity with standard software development lifecycles
14 Hours
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