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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Module 1 – Advanced Git & GitHub Workflows
- Complex Git concepts and repository administration
- Branching methodologies: Comparing GitFlow with trunk-based development
- Techniques for rebasing, merging, and cherry-picking
- Utilizing interactive rebase
- Handling and resolving intricate merge conflicts
- Tagging, release management, and versioning
- Investigating and recovering Git history
- Best practices for scaling across large development teams
Module 2 – Advanced Pull Requests & Collaboration
- Structuring efficient pull request processes
- Implementing draft pull requests and review tactics
- Configuring CODEOWNERS
- Setting up branch protection and rulesets
- Enforcing required reviews and status checks
- Oversight of extensive or prolonged pull requests
- Creating issue and pull request templates
- Leveraging GitHub Projects
- Managing teams, permissions, and repository governance
- Hands-on task: Architecting an enterprise-grade collaboration workflow
Module 3 – GitHub Actions & CI/CD
- Understanding the architecture of GitHub Actions
- Configuring workflows, jobs, steps, and triggers
- Managing secrets, variables, and environments
- Implementing conditional logic and job dependencies
- Using matrix strategies
- Handling artifacts and caching
- Creating 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 cycles
- Hands-on task: Constructing a comprehensive end-to-end CI/CD pipeline
Module 4 – GitHub Security & Automation
- Exploring GitHub’s security features
- Managing dependencies with Dependabot
- Implementing dependency reviews
- Utilizing secret scanning and push protection
- Conducting code scanning
- Defining security policies and managing vulnerabilities
- Ensuring supply-chain security
- Using the GitHub CLI
- Overview of the GitHub REST API
- Configuring webhooks and integrations
- Automating repository, issue, and pull request management
- Applying practical security and automation scenarios
Module 5 – End-to-End GitHub Workflow
- Designing a holistic GitHub development lifecycle
- Establishing repository and branching strategies
- Defining pull request and code review processes
- Implementing automated testing
- Integrating the CI/CD pipeline
- Incorporating security checks
- Managing releases
- Troubleshooting and performance optimization
- Team-based practical assignment
- Course summary and Q&A session
Optional Module – GitHub Copilot
- Capabilities and workflows of GitHub Copilot
- Using Copilot Chat and IDE integrations
- Crafting effective prompts for developers
- Generating and explaining code
- Refactoring and code optimization
- Generating unit tests
- Debugging with Copilot assistance
- Automating documentation creation
- Utilizing Copilot for pull requests and code reviews
- Ensuring responsible and secure use of AI-generated code
- Practical exercises with Copilot
Requirements
Attendees are expected to possess the following:
- Demonstrated practical proficiency with Git and GitHub
- A solid grasp of repositories, branching, commits, and pull requests
- Prior exposure to GitHub Actions is advantageous, though not mandatory
- Knowledge of standard software development lifecycles
Testimonials (1)
Easy going trainer, very knowledgeable and approachable.
