Git for Victims of Subversion Training Course

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate to advanced professionals who wish to apply GitLab for advanced CI/CD workflows, project structuring, and collaborative development using the Free edition of GitLab.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Implement advanced GitLab CI/CD pipelines with custom runners and reusable templates.
• Organize projects effectively using groups and namespaces.
• Collaborate on code, issues, and documentation with Markdown and GitLab tools.
• Apply GitLab Pages, release workflows, and secure configurations in real-world projects.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) targets software engineers and anyone interested in learning how to utilise Gerrit as a Git repository and conduct code reviews.

By the conclusion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand Gerrit’s functionality and manage the Gerrit web interface.
• Learn best practices for employing Gerrit in managing code review workflows.
• Administer and configure a Gerrit project.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is designed for intermediate-level developers and DevOps engineers seeking practical experience with Git and Azure DevOps. The focus is on branch management, merge strategies, conflict resolution, and the effective use of graphical clients.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Grasp core Git concepts and workflows.
• Efficiently manage branches and merges within collaborative settings.
• Resolve conflicts by applying best practices in real-world scenarios.
• Utilise graphical clients (SourceTree and GitKraken) for Git management.
• Execute practical Git operations via both the console and graphical interfaces.
• Implement Git within Azure DevOps for repository integration and version control.

Comprehensive Git training equips software engineers with practical expertise in distributed version control systems—spanning from initial repository configuration and branching strategies to server deployment and collaborative team processes. The course curriculum navigates participants through essential Git utility tools and customisation, delivering actionable insights for managing source code control across intricate development teams and continuous integration pipelines.

Gitea is a lightweight, open-source, self-hosted Git service providing repository management, code review, issue tracking, and CI/CD integration. It is an increasingly popular alternative to GitHub and GitLab.com for teams that need full control over their source code without third-party terms of service or export restrictions.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or on-site) is aimed at developers and software engineers who are new to GitHub's platform and want to employ its features along with Git for better versioning and management of an enterprise application's source code.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Setup and configure an account for accessing GitHub's web-based platform.
• Understand how Git's system works and grasp the concepts foundational to GitHub.
• Create and manage GitHub repositories while implementing Git workflows.
• Execute source code changes inside GitHub and sync revisions that were done outside the platform.
• Operate Pull Requests, Tags, Releases, and other fundamental GitHub components.
• Perform version control functionalities based on Git and utilize GitHub's bash environment.
• Create repository branches for resolving project defects together with the team.
• Grasp and familiarize themselves with Git and GitHub's structure for better programming practice.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level developers and DevOps professionals who wish to improve the security, governance, and automation of their GitHub environments, particularly within an enterprise context.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Configure and manage GitHub security settings and repository access.
• Implement security best practices using GitHub tools like Dependabot and CodeQL.
• Create, reuse, and maintain GitHub Actions and workflows.
• Monitor and audit activity for compliance and governance at scale.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (onsite or remote) is aimed at developers who wish to set up and use Gitlab for version control and continuous integration.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Gitlab.
• Understand how to implement an alternative to Github.
• Use Gitlab to manage a DevOps lifecycle.
• Use Gitlab for Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery.
• Efficiently develop, release and test software using Gitlab.

GitLab Self-Managed provides an on-premises deployment of GitLab's comprehensive DevSecOps platform, including source code management, CI/CD, container registry, security scanning, and monitoring. It is the gold standard for organisations desiring the full GitLab feature set without SaaS dependency or data leaving their network.

Git for Users provides developers and project managers with essential version control techniques using Git to facilitate collaborative development. The course covers the core principles of the Git data model, object types, branching strategies, and merging workflows. It examines proven methods for managing commit history, analysing diffs, performing stash operations, creating tags, and utilising distributed development patterns with hosted repositories. This enables software teams to effectively manage version histories, resolve merge conflicts, and maintain traceable code across collaborative projects.

This instructor-led live training in South Africa (online or on-site) is aimed at DevOps engineers who wish to use Kubernetes and GitLab to automate the DevOps lifecycle.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Automate application builds, tests, and deployments.
• Create an automated build infrastructure.
• Deploy an application to a containerised cloud environment.

This course is designed for project managers, release managers, product managers, product owners, Scrum Masters, software architects, and anyone involved in planning software releases and deployments.

It demonstrates how to transition changes from requirements through development and testing stages to the production environment using a distributed version control system (focusing on Git, but also valuable for users of other distributed source control management systems).

This programme is designed for experienced Subversion practitioners, such as release managers, project leads, and anyone seeking to optimise their SVN repository within a streamlined production pipeline. It covers intensive topics including branching management, automated build and compilation processes, testing, deployment, and system updates.

Participants will find this course particularly beneficial for fostering closer collaboration between development and deployment teams, especially within large organisations or those with geographically dispersed offices.

The curriculum includes numerous practical exercises conducted on CentOS 5 virtual machines.

Woodpecker CI is a straightforward yet robust continuous integration engine crafted specifically for self-hosted Git forges such as Gitea and Forgejo. It delivers a lightweight, Docker-native CI/CD experience, avoiding the complexity and licensing costs associated with enterprise CI platforms.