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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Module 1 – Advanced Git & GitHub Workflows
- Advanced Git concepts and repository administration
- Branching strategies: Comparing GitFlow with trunk-based development
- Techniques for rebasing, merging, and cherry-picking
- Utilizing interactive rebase
- Handling and resolving complex merge conflicts
- Managing tags, releases, and version control
- Investigating Git history and recovering data
- Best practices for scaling with large development teams
Module 2 – Advanced Pull Requests & Collaboration
- Crafting efficient pull request workflows
- Using draft pull requests and implementing review strategies
- Implementing CODEOWNERS
- Configuring branch protection and rulesets
- Enforcing required reviews and status checks
- Overseeing large and long-term pull requests
- Utilizing issue and pull request templates
- Managing work with GitHub Projects
- Governing teams, permissions, and repositories
- Practical task: Creating an enterprise-level 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
- Handling artifacts and caching
- Creating reusable workflows and composite actions
- Debugging and optimizing workflows
- Constructing CI pipelines
- Setting up automated testing and build processes
- Deploying to multiple environments
- Automating release processes
- Practical task: Building a comprehensive CI/CD pipeline
Module 4 – GitHub Security & Automation
- Leveraging GitHub security features
- Managing dependencies with Dependabot
- Conducting dependency reviews
- Implementing secret scanning and push protection
- Performing code scanning
- Establishing security policies and vulnerability management
- Ensuring supply-chain security
- Using the GitHub CLI
- Overview of the GitHub REST API
- Integrating Webhooks and third-party tools
- Automating repositories, issues, and pull requests
- Practical scenarios for security and automation
Module 5 – End-to-End GitHub Workflow
- Designing a holistic GitHub development workflow
- Defining repository and branching strategies
- Streamlining the pull request and code review process
- Implementing automated testing
- Setting up the CI/CD pipeline
- Incorporating security checks
- Managing releases
- Troubleshooting and optimization techniques
- Team-based practical exercise
- Course summary and Q&A session
Optional Module – GitHub Copilot
- Exploring GitHub Copilot capabilities and its workflow
- Integrating Copilot Chat with IDEs
- Writing effective prompts for developers
- Generating and explaining code
- Refactoring and optimizing code
- Generating unit tests
- Debugging using Copilot
- Automating documentation generation
- Using Copilot for pull requests and code reviews
- Responsible and secure practices for AI-generated code
- Practical Copilot exercises
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 (preferred but not mandatory)
- Knowledge of software development workflows
Testimonials (1)
Easy going trainer, very knowledgeable and approachable.
