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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Module 1 – Advanced Git & GitHub Workflows
- In-depth Git concepts and repository administration
- Branching methodologies: GitFlow versus trunk-based development
- Techniques for rebasing, merging, and cherry-picking
- Utilising interactive rebase
- Strategies for managing and resolving intricate merge conflicts
- Managing tags, releases, and version control
- Investigating Git history and performing recovery operations
- Best practices suited for large-scale development teams
Module 2 – Advanced Pull Requests & Collaboration
- Creating efficient pull request workflows
- Draft pull requests and strategic review processes
- Implementing CODEOWNERS
- Configuring branch protection and rulesets
- Defining required reviews and status checks
- Handling extensive and long-term pull requests
- Establishing issue templates and pull request templates
- Utilising GitHub Projects
- Administering teams, permissions, and repository governance
- Practical application: designing an enterprise-grade collaboration workflow
Module 3 – GitHub Actions & CI/CD
- Understanding the architecture of GitHub Actions
- 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
- Leveraging reusable workflows and composite actions
- Debugging and optimising workflows
- Constructing CI pipelines
- Establishing automated testing and build workflows
- Managing multi-environment deployments
- Automating release processes
- Practical application: constructing an 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 managing vulnerabilities
- Enhancing supply-chain security
- Utilising the GitHub CLI
- Overview of the GitHub REST API
- Configuring Webhooks and integrations
- Automating repository, issue, and pull request management
- Practical scenarios for security and automation
Module 5 – End-to-End GitHub Workflow
- Architecting 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 optimisation techniques
- Team-based practical exercise
- Summary and Q&A session
Optional Module – GitHub Copilot
- Exploring GitHub Copilot capabilities and workflow integration
- Using Copilot Chat and IDE integration
- Effective prompting techniques for developers
- Code generation and explanation processes
- Refactoring and code optimisation
- Generating unit tests
- Debugging assisted by Copilot
- Generating documentation
- Utilising Copilot for pull requests and code reviews
- Responsible and secure usage of AI-generated code
- Practical Copilot exercises
Requirements
To participate, individuals should possess the following:
- Practical proficiency with Git and GitHub
- A solid understanding of repositories, branches, commits, and pull requests
- Basic familiarity with GitHub Actions is advantageous, though not mandatory
- Knowledge of standard software development workflows
Testimonials (1)
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