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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Module 1 – Advanced Git & GitHub Workflows
- Deep dive into advanced Git concepts and repository administration
- Comparative analysis of branching strategies: GitFlow vs. trunk-based development
- Techniques for rebasing, merging, and cherry-picking
- Utilizing interactive rebase for history refinement
- Strategies for managing and resolving complex merge conflicts
- Handling tags, releases, and version control
- Investigating Git history and performing recovery operations
- Best practices for scaling across large development teams
Module 2 – Advanced Pull Requests & Collaboration
- Architecting efficient pull request workflows
- Leveraging draft pull requests and implementing robust review strategies
- Configuring CODEOWNERS
- Implementing branch protection rules and rulesets
- Enforcing required reviews and status checks
- Oversight of large-scale and long-running pull requests
- Establishing issue templates and pull request templates
- Utilizing GitHub Projects for planning
- Governing teams, permissions, and repository access
- Practical exercise: architecting an enterprise-grade collaboration workflow
Module 3 – GitHub Actions & CI/CD
- Understanding the architecture of GitHub Actions
- Defining workflows, jobs, steps, and trigger events
- Managing secrets, variables, and environments
- Implementing conditional execution and job dependencies
- Applying matrix strategies for parallel testing
- Managing artifacts and leveraging caching
- Creating reusable workflows and composite actions
- Debugging and optimizing workflow performance
- Constructing CI pipelines
- Automating testing and build processes
- Executing multi-environment deployments
- Automating release processes
- Practical exercise: constructing an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline
Module 4 – GitHub Security & Automation
- Exploring GitHub’s native security features
- Using Dependabot for dependency management
- Implementing dependency review processes
- Configuring secret scanning and push protection
- Integrating code scanning
- Establishing security policies and managing vulnerabilities
- Enhancing supply-chain security
- Working with the GitHub CLI
- Overview of the GitHub REST API
- Setting up webhooks and third-party integrations
- Automating repository, issue, and pull request tasks
- Practical scenarios focused on security and automation
Module 5 – End-to-End GitHub Workflow
- Designing a comprehensive GitHub development lifecycle
- Aligning repository structure with branching strategies
- Streamlining the pull request and code review process
- Integrating automated testing
- Implementing the CI/CD pipeline
- Embedding security checks
- Managing release cycles
- Troubleshooting and performance optimization
- Team-based practical exercise
- Course summary and Q&A session
Optional Module – GitHub Copilot
- Capabilities and workflow integration of GitHub Copilot
- Utilizing Copilot Chat and IDE integrations
- Crafting effective prompts for developer tasks
- Code generation and explanatory assistance
- Refactoring and performance optimization
- Generating unit tests
- Debugging supported by Copilot
- Automated documentation generation
- Leveraging Copilot for pull requests and code reviews
- Guidelines for responsible and secure use of AI-generated code
- Hands-on Copilot exercises
Requirements
Participants are expected to possess the following:
- Demonstrated hands-on experience using Git and GitHub
- A solid understanding of repositories, branches, commits, and pull requests
- Foundational knowledge of GitHub Actions is advantageous, though not mandatory
- Familiarity with standard software development workflows
Testimonials (1)
Easy going trainer, very knowledgeable and approachable.
