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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Module 1 – Advanced Git & GitHub Workflows
- Advanced Git concepts and repository management
- Branching strategies: GitFlow vs. trunk-based development
- Rebasing, merging, and cherry-picking
- Interactive rebase techniques
- Managing and resolving complex merge conflicts
- Tags, releases, and version management
- Investigating and recovering Git history
- Best practices for large development teams
Module 2 – Advanced Pull Requests & Collaboration
- Designing effective pull request workflows
- Draft pull requests and review strategies
- Utilizing CODEOWNERS
- Branch protection and rulesets
- Required reviews and status checks
- Managing large and long-running pull requests
- Issue templates and pull request templates
- Using GitHub Projects
- Teams, permissions, and repository governance
- Practical exercise: designing an enterprise-style collaboration workflow
Module 3 – GitHub Actions & CI/CD
- GitHub Actions architecture
- Workflows, jobs, steps, and triggers
- Secrets, variables, and environments
- Conditional execution and job dependencies
- Matrix strategies
- Artifacts and caching
- Reusable workflows and composite actions
- Workflow debugging and optimisation
- Building CI pipelines
- Automated testing and build workflows
- Multi-environment deployments
- Release automation
- Practical exercise: building an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline
Module 4 – GitHub Security & Automation
- GitHub security capabilities
- Dependabot and dependency management
- Dependency review
- Secret scanning and push protection
- Code scanning
- Security policies and vulnerability management
- Supply-chain security
- GitHub CLI
- GitHub REST API overview
- Webhooks and integrations
- Automating repositories, issues, and pull requests
- Practical security and automation scenarios
Module 5 – End-to-End GitHub Workflow
- Designing a complete GitHub development workflow
- Repository and branching strategy
- Pull request and code review process
- Automated testing
- CI/CD pipeline
- Security checks
- Release management
- Troubleshooting and optimisation
- Team-based practical exercise
- Summary and Q&A
Optional Module – GitHub Copilot
- GitHub Copilot capabilities and workflow
- Copilot Chat and IDE integration
- Effective prompting for developers
- Code generation and explanation
- Refactoring and optimisation
- Generating unit tests
- Debugging with Copilot
- Documentation generation
- Copilot for pull requests and code review
- Responsible and secure use of AI-generated code
- Practical Copilot exercises
Requirements
Participants are expected to have the following:
- Practical hands-on experience with Git and GitHub
- A solid understanding of repositories, branches, commits, and pull requests
- Familiarity with GitHub Actions is advantageous, though not mandatory
- Knowledge of standard software development workflows
Testimonials (1)
Easy going trainer, very knowledgeable and approachable.
