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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Module 1 – Advanced Git & GitHub Workflows
- Deep dive into Git concepts and repository administration
- Branching methodologies: Comparing GitFlow with trunk-based development
- Techniques for rebasing, merging, and cherry-picking
- Utilizing interactive rebase
- Resolving complex merge conflicts effectively
- Managing tags, releases, and software versions
- Investigating and recovering Git history
- Best practices for scaling large development teams
Module 2 – Advanced Pull Requests & Collaboration
- Architecting efficient pull request processes
- Leveraging draft pull requests and review tactics
- Implementing CODEOWNERS
- Configuring branch protection and rulesets
- Enforcing required reviews and status checks
- Handling large-scale 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
- Handling artifacts and caching mechanisms
- Developing reusable workflows and composite actions
- Debugging and optimizing workflow performance
- Constructing CI pipelines
- Automating testing and build processes
- Deploying across multiple environments
- Streamlining release automation
- Practical exercise: Building a complete end-to-end CI/CD pipeline
Module 4 – GitHub Security & Automation
- Exploring GitHub’s security features
- Managing dependencies with Dependabot
- Conducting dependency reviews
- Implementing secret scanning and push protection
- Performing code scanning
- Defining security policies and managing vulnerabilities
- 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 for security and automation
Module 5 – End-to-End GitHub Workflow
- Designing a comprehensive GitHub development lifecycle
- Defining repository and branching strategies
- Streamlining pull request and code review procedures
- Integrating automated testing
- Establishing 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
- Understanding GitHub Copilot capabilities and workflows
- Integrating Copilot Chat with IDEs
- Crafting effective prompts for development tasks
- Generating and explaining code
- Refactoring and optimizing codebases
- Automating unit test generation
- Debugging with Copilot assistance
- Generating technical documentation
- Enhancing pull requests and code reviews with Copilot
- Responsible and secure use of AI-generated code
- Practical exercises using Copilot
Requirements
Participants are expected to possess:
- Hands-on proficiency with Git and GitHub
- A solid grasp of repositories, branches, commits, and pull requests
- Basic knowledge of GitHub Actions (preferred but not mandatory)
- General familiarity with software development processes
Testimonials (1)
Easy going trainer, very knowledgeable and approachable.
