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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Sophisticated Git & GitHub Practices
- Complex Git concepts and advanced 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
- Managing tags, releases, and version control
- Investigating Git history and recovering from errors
- Best practices for scaling large development teams
Advanced Pull Request & Collaboration Strategies
- Creating efficient pull request processes
- Leveraging draft pull requests and structured review approaches
- Implementing CODEOWNERS
- Configuring branch protection and rulesets
- Setting up mandatory reviews and status checks
- Oversight of extensive and long-term pull requests
- Using issue and pull request templates
- Leveraging GitHub Projects
- Managing teams, permissions, and repository governance
- Practical exercise: architecting an enterprise-grade collaboration workflow
GitHub Actions & CI/CD Implementation
- Understanding the GitHub Actions architecture
- Defining workflows, jobs, steps, and triggers
- Managing secrets, variables, and environments
- Configuring conditional execution and job dependencies
- Applying matrix strategies
- Handling artifacts and caching mechanisms
- Creating reusable workflows and composite actions
- Debugging and optimizing workflows
- Constructing CI pipelines
- Automating testing and build processes
- Deploying across multiple environments
- Automating release cycles
- Practical exercise: constructing a complete end-to-end CI/CD pipeline
GitHub Security & Automation
- Exploring GitHub security features
- Utilizing Dependabot and managing dependencies
- Implementing dependency reviews
- Securing secrets and preventing compromised pushes
- Performing code scanning
- Establishing security policies and vulnerability handling
- Strengthening supply-chain security
- Using the GitHub CLI
- Overview of the GitHub REST API
- Configuring webhooks and integrations
- Automating repository tasks, issues, and pull requests
- Real-world security and automation scenarios
Comprehensive GitHub Workflow
- Designing a holistic GitHub development lifecycle
- Defining repository and branching architectures
- Refining pull request and code review procedures
- Implementing automated testing
- Building the CI/CD pipeline
- Integrating security checks
- Overseeing release management
- Diagnosing issues and optimizing performance
- Team-based practical session
- Course summary and Q&A
Optional Module – GitHub Copilot
- Capabilities and workflow integration of GitHub Copilot
- Using Copilot Chat and IDE connections
- Crafting effective prompts for developers
- Leveraging code generation and explanation
- Assisting with refactoring and optimization
- Automating unit test generation
- Debugging with Copilot assistance
- Generating documentation
- Utilizing Copilot in 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 background:
- Hands-on familiarity with Git and GitHub
- A solid grasp of repositories, branching, commits, and pull requests
- Basic knowledge of GitHub Actions is advantageous but not mandatory
- Exposure to standard software development lifecycles
Testimonials (1)
Easy going trainer, very knowledgeable and approachable.
