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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Module 1 – Advanced Git & GitHub Workflows
- Advanced Git concepts and repository management techniques
- Branching strategies: comparing GitFlow with trunk-based development
- Techniques for rebasing, merging, and cherry-picking
- Performing interactive rebases
- Managing and resolving complex merge conflicts
- Handling tags, releases, and version control
- Investigating Git history and recovering data
- Best practices for managing large development teams
Module 2 – Advanced Pull Requests & Collaboration
- Creating effective pull request workflows
- Using draft pull requests and implementing review strategies
- Utilizing CODEOWNERS files
- Configuring branch protection rules and rulesets
- Setting up required reviews and status checks
- Handling large or long-running pull requests
- Implementing issue and pull request templates
- Managing work with GitHub Projects
- Administering teams, permissions, and repository governance
- Practical exercise: designing an enterprise-grade collaboration workflow
Module 3 – GitHub Actions & CI/CD
- Understanding the GitHub Actions architecture
- Configuring workflows, jobs, steps, and triggers
- Managing secrets, variables, and environments
- Implementing conditional execution and job dependencies
- Using matrix strategies for testing
- Managing artifacts and caching
- Leveraging reusable workflows and composite actions
- Debugging and optimizing workflows
- Constructing CI pipelines
- Setting up automated testing and build processes
- Executing multi-environment deployments
- Automating release processes
- Practical exercise: building a complete CI/CD pipeline
Module 4 – GitHub Security & Automation
- Exploring GitHub’s security features
- Using Dependabot for dependency management
- Implementing dependency review
- Applying secret scanning and push protection
- Performing code scanning
- Establishing security policies and managing vulnerabilities
- Securing the supply chain
- Utilizing the GitHub CLI
- Overview of the GitHub REST API
- Configuring webhooks and integrations
- Automating repositories, issues, and pull requests
- Practical scenarios for security and automation
Module 5 – End-to-End GitHub Workflow
- Designing a comprehensive GitHub development workflow
- Defining repository and branching strategies
- Streamlining the pull request and code review process
- Implementing automated testing
- Setting up CI/CD pipelines
- Incorporating security checks
- Managing releases
- Troubleshooting and optimizing the workflow
- Team-based practical exercise
- Summary and Q&A session
Optional Module – GitHub Copilot
- Exploring GitHub Copilot capabilities and workflows
- Integrating Copilot Chat with IDEs
- Crafting effective prompts for developers
- Generating and explaining code
- Refactoring and optimizing code
- Automating the generation of unit tests
- Debugging with Copilot assistance
- Generating documentation
- Using Copilot for pull requests and code reviews
- Ensuring responsible and secure use of AI-generated code
- Practical exercises with Copilot
Requirements
Participants are expected to have:
- Hands-on experience with Git and GitHub
- A solid understanding of repositories, branches, commits, and pull requests
- Basic familiarity with GitHub Actions, though this is advantageous rather than mandatory
- Knowledge of standard software development workflows
Testimonials (1)
Easy going trainer, very knowledgeable and approachable.
