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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Module 1 – Sophisticated Git & GitHub Workflows
- Advanced Git concepts and comprehensive repository administration
- Branching methodologies: Comparing GitFlow with trunk-based development
- Techniques for rebasing, merging, and cherry-picking
- Utilizing interactive rebase for refined history
- Handling and resolving intricate merge conflicts
- Managing tags, releases, and version control
- Investigating and recovering Git history
- Best practices for scaling within large engineering teams
Module 2 – Advanced Pull Requests & Team Collaboration
- Architecting efficient pull request processes
- Leveraging draft pull requests and strategic reviews
- Implementing CODEOWNERS for accountability
- Configuring branch protection and rulesets
- Enforcing required reviews and status checks
- Managing extensive and long-term pull requests
- Standardizing with issue and pull request templates
- Utilizing GitHub Projects for tracking
- Managing teams, permissions, and overall repository governance
- Hands-on exercise: Creating an enterprise-grade collaboration model
Module 3 – GitHub Actions & CI/CD Integration
- Understanding GitHub Actions architecture
- Managing workflows, jobs, steps, and triggers
- Handling secrets, variables, and environments securely
- Implementing conditional execution and job dependencies
- Applying matrix strategies for broad testing
- Utilizing artifacts and caching for performance
- Creating reusable workflows and composite actions
- Debugging and optimizing workflow performance
- Constructing robust CI pipelines
- Automating testing and build processes
- Managing multi-environment deployments
- Automating release processes
- Practical task: Building a complete end-to-end CI/CD pipeline
Module 4 – GitHub Security & Automation
- Exploring GitHub's security features
- Using Dependabot for proactive dependency management
- Implementing dependency review processes
- Deploying secret scanning and push protection
- Conducting code scanning for vulnerabilities
- Establishing security policies and vulnerability management
- Safeguarding supply-chain integrity
- Leveraging the GitHub CLI for automation
- Overview of the GitHub REST API
- Setting up webhooks and external integrations
- Automating repository, issue, and pull request management
- Practical scenarios focused on security and automation
Module 5 – Comprehensive GitHub Workflow Design
- Designing a holistic GitHub development lifecycle
- Defining repository and branching strategies
- Streamlining pull request and code review procedures
- Integrating automated testing
- Configuring CI/CD pipelines
- Incorporating security checks
- Managing releases effectively
- Troubleshooting and workflow optimization
- Team-based practical implementation
- Course summary and Q&A session
Optional Module – GitHub Copilot
- Exploring GitHub Copilot's capabilities and workflow integration
- Using Copilot Chat and IDE extensions
- Techniques for effective prompting in development
- Leveraging code generation and explanation features
- Refactoring and optimizing code with assistance
- Generating unit tests automatically
- Utilizing Copilot for debugging tasks
- Automating documentation generation
- Enhancing pull requests and code reviews with Copilot
- Ensuring responsible and secure use of AI-generated code
- Hands-on Copilot exercises
Requirements
Attendees are expected to possess:
- Hands-on proficiency with Git and GitHub
- A solid grasp of repositories, branches, commits, and pull requests
- Prior exposure to GitHub Actions is advantageous, though not mandatory
- General familiarity with software development lifecycles
Testimonials (1)
Easy going trainer, very knowledgeable and approachable.
