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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Module 1 – Advanced Git & GitHub Workflows
- In-depth Git concepts and repository administration
- Branching methodologies: comparing GitFlow with trunk-based development
- Rebasing, merging, and cherry-picking techniques
- Utilizing interactive rebase
- Navigating and resolving intricate merge conflicts
- Tags, releases, and version control management
- Investigating Git history and recovery procedures
- Best practices for managing large-scale development teams
Module 2 – Advanced Pull Requests & Collaboration
- Creating effective pull request workflows
- Implementing draft pull requests and review strategies
- Utilizing CODEOWNERS
- Configuring branch protection and rulesets
- Enforcing required reviews and status checks
- Overseeing large and long-duration pull requests
- Setting up issue and pull request templates
- Leveraging GitHub Projects
- Managing teams, permissions, and repository governance
- Hands-on exercise: architecting an enterprise-grade 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
- Handling artifacts and caching
- Creating reusable workflows and composite actions
- Debugging and optimizing workflows
- Constructing CI pipelines
- Automating testing and build processes
- Executing multi-environment deployments
- Automating release processes
- Hands-on exercise: constructing a complete end-to-end CI/CD pipeline
Module 4 – GitHub Security & Automation
- Exploring GitHub’s security features
- Managing dependencies with Dependabot
- Implementing dependency review
- Secret scanning and push protection
- Code scanning techniques
- Establishing security policies and vulnerability management
- Enhancing supply-chain security
- Using the GitHub CLI
- Overview of the GitHub REST API
- Webhooks and system integrations
- 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 lifecycle
- Defining repository and branching strategies
- Structuring the pull request and code review process
- Implementing automated testing
- Building the CI/CD pipeline
- Integrating security checks
- Managing releases
- Troubleshooting and performance optimization
- Team-based practical exercise
- Course summary and Q&A session
Optional Module – GitHub Copilot
- Exploring GitHub Copilot features and workflow integration
- Using Copilot Chat and IDE integration
- Crafting effective prompts for developers
- Generating and explaining code
- Refactoring and optimization techniques
- Generating unit tests
- Debugging with Copilot assistance
- Automating documentation generation
- Leveraging Copilot for pull requests and code reviews
- Responsible and secure utilization of AI-generated code
- Hands-on exercises with Copilot
Requirements
To successfully engage with this material, participants are expected to bring the following:
- Hands-on experience with Git and GitHub
- A solid grasp of repositories, branches, commits, and pull requests
- Introductory experience with GitHub Actions is advantageous, though not mandatory
- Accustomed to standard software development workflows
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