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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Module 1 – Advanced Git & GitHub Workflows
- In-depth Git concepts and repository management
- Branching strategies: comparing GitFlow with trunk-based development
- Techniques for rebasing, merging and cherry-picking
- Utilising interactive rebase
- Managing and resolving complex merge conflicts
- Handling tags, releases and version management
- Investigating and recovering Git history
- Best practices for large-scale development teams
Module 2 – Advanced Pull Requests & Collaboration
- Designing effective pull request workflows
- Implementing draft pull requests and review strategies
- Configuring CODEOWNERS
- Setting up branch protection and rulesets
- Defining required reviews and status checks
- Managing large-scale and long-running pull requests
- Creating issue and pull request templates
- Leveraging GitHub Projects
- Managing teams, permissions and repository governance
- Practical exercise: designing an enterprise-level 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
- Utilising artifacts and caching
- Creating reusable workflows and composite actions
- Debugging and optimising workflows
- Building CI pipelines
- Establishing automated testing and build workflows
- Handling multi-environment deployments
- Automating releases
- Practical exercise: constructing an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline
Module 4 – GitHub Security & Automation
- Exploring GitHub security capabilities
- 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
- Utilising the GitHub CLI
- Overview of the GitHub REST API
- Configuring 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 workflow
- Defining repository and branching strategies
- Streamlining pull request and code review processes
- Implementing automated testing
- Building CI/CD pipelines
- Integrating security checks
- Managing releases
- Troubleshooting and optimisation techniques
- Team-based practical exercise
- Summary and Q&A session
Optional Module – GitHub Copilot
- Understanding GitHub Copilot capabilities and workflow integration
- Using Copilot Chat and IDE integration
- Effective prompting techniques for developers
- Generating and explaining code
- Refactoring and optimisation with Copilot
- Generating unit tests
- Debugging processes with Copilot
- Automating documentation generation
- Enhancing pull requests and code reviews with Copilot
- Ensuring responsible and secure use of AI-generated code
- Practical Copilot exercises
Requirements
Participants are expected to have the following:
- Practical proficiency in Git and GitHub
- A solid understanding of repositories, branches, commits and pull requests
- Familiarity with GitHub Actions is advantageous, though not mandatory
- Knowledge of software development workflows
Testimonials (1)
Easy going trainer, very knowledgeable and approachable.
