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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Module 1 – Advanced Git & GitHub Workflows
- Exploring advanced Git concepts and repository management
- Comparing branching strategies: GitFlow versus trunk-based development
- Techniques for rebasing, merging, and cherry-picking
- Using interactive rebase
- Managing and resolving complex merge conflicts
- Handling tags, releases, and version management
- Investigating Git history and recovering lost changes
- Applying best practices for large development teams
Module 2 – Advanced Pull Requests & Collaboration
- Designing effective pull request workflows
- Utilizing draft pull requests and establishing review strategies
- Implementing CODEOWNERS
- Configuring branch protection and rulesets
- Setting up required reviews and status checks
- Managing large or long-running pull requests
- Creating issue templates and pull request templates
- Using GitHub Projects
- Managing teams, permissions, and repository governance
- Practical exercise: designing an enterprise-style 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
- Using matrix strategies
- Handling artifacts and caching
- Creating reusable workflows and composite actions
- Debugging and optimizing workflows
- Building CI pipelines
- Setting up automated testing and build workflows
- Managing multi-environment deployments
- Automating release processes
- Practical exercise: building an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline
Module 4 – GitHub Security & Automation
- Leveraging GitHub security capabilities
- Managing dependencies with Dependabot
- Implementing dependency review
- Configuring 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 external systems
- Automating repositories, issues, and pull requests
- Practical scenarios focusing on security and automation
Module 5 – End-to-End GitHub Workflow
- Designing a complete GitHub development workflow
- Defining repository and branching strategies
- Establishing pull request and code review processes
- Implementing automated testing
- Building CI/CD pipelines
- Incorporating security checks
- Managing releases
- Troubleshooting and optimizing workflows
- Team-based practical exercise
- Summary and Q&A
Optional Module – GitHub Copilot
- Exploring GitHub Copilot capabilities and workflows
- Integrating Copilot Chat with IDEs
- Effective prompting techniques 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
- Ensuring responsible and secure use of AI-generated code
- Practical Copilot exercises
Requirements
To succeed in this course, participants are expected to:
- Have practical experience using Git and GitHub
- Understand core concepts such as repositories, branches, commits, and pull requests
- Benefit from basic familiarity with GitHub Actions, though it is not strictly required
- Be familiar with standard software development workflows
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