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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Module 1 – Advanced Git & GitHub Workflows
- Advanced Git concepts and repository management
- Branching strategies: comparing GitFlow with trunk-based development
- Techniques for rebasing, merging, and cherry-picking
- Utilizing interactive rebase
- Managing and resolving complex merge conflicts
- Handling tags, releases, and version control
- Investigating Git history and data recovery
- Best practices for scaling large development teams
Module 2 – Advanced Pull Requests & Collaboration
- Crafting effective pull request workflows
- Leveraging draft pull requests and review strategies
- Implementing CODEOWNERS
- Configuring branch protection and rulesets
- Enforcing required reviews and status checks
- Oversight of large and long-running pull requests
- Creating issue and pull request templates
- Utilizing GitHub Projects
- Managing teams, permissions, and repository governance
- Practical exercise: designing an enterprise-grade collaboration workflow
Module 3 – GitHub Actions & CI/CD
- Understanding GitHub Actions architecture
- Configuring workflows, jobs, steps, and triggers
- Managing secrets, variables, and environments
- Implementing conditional execution and job dependencies
- Applying matrix strategies
- Utilizing artifacts and caching mechanisms
- Creating reusable workflows and composite actions
- Debugging and optimizing workflows
- Constructing CI pipelines
- Implementing automated testing and build workflows
- Executing multi-environment deployments
- Automating release processes
- Practical exercise: building a complete end-to-end CI/CD pipeline
Module 4 – GitHub Security & Automation
- Exploring 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
- Setting up webhooks and 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 workflow
- Defining repository and branching strategies
- Streamlining pull request and code review processes
- Integrating automated testing
- Implementing CI/CD pipelines
- Incorporating security checks
- Managing releases
- Troubleshooting and performance optimization
- Team-based practical exercise
- Course summary and Q&A session
Optional Module – GitHub Copilot
- Overview of GitHub Copilot capabilities and workflow
- Using Copilot Chat and IDE integration
- Crafting effective prompts for developers
- Leveraging code generation and explanation features
- Refactoring and code optimization
- Generating unit tests
- Debugging processes with Copilot
- Generating technical documentation
- Applying Copilot to pull requests and code reviews
- Practicing responsible and secure use of AI-generated code
- Hands-on Copilot exercises
Requirements
Participants should demonstrate the following:
- Hands-on experience using Git and GitHub
- A solid grasp of repositories, branches, commits, and pull requests
- Basic familiarity with GitHub Actions (helpful but not mandatory)
- Knowledge of standard software development workflows
Testimonials (1)
Easy going trainer, very knowledgeable and approachable.
