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Course Outline
Module 1 – Advanced Git & GitHub Workflows
- Deep-dive into advanced Git concepts and repository management
- Comparing branching strategies: GitFlow vs. trunk-based development
- Techniques for rebasing, merging, and cherry-picking
- Utilising interactive rebase
- Strategies for managing and resolving complex merge conflicts
- Managing tags, releases, and version control
- Investigating Git history and performing recoveries
- Best practices for scaling development teams
Module 2 – Advanced Pull Requests & Collaboration
- Crafting effective pull request workflows
- Using draft pull requests and implementing review strategies
- Configuring CODEOWNERS
- Setting up branch protection and rulesets
- Implementing required reviews and status checks
- Managing large, long-running pull requests
- Creating Issue templates and pull request templates
- Utilising GitHub Projects
- Managing teams, permissions, and repository governance
- Practical exercise: designing an enterprise-grade 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 optimising workflows
- Constructing CI pipelines
- Setting up automated testing and build workflows
- Managing multi-environment deployments
- Automating releases
- Practical exercise: building an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline
Module 4 – GitHub Security & Automation
- Exploring GitHub security capabilities
- Managing dependencies with Dependabot
- Implementing dependency review
- Utilising secret scanning and push protection
- Running code scanning
- Establishing security policies and vulnerability management
- Addressing supply-chain security
- Using the GitHub CLI
- Overview of the GitHub REST API
- Setting up 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
- Refining the pull request and code review process
- Integrating automated testing
- Building the CI/CD pipeline
- Incorporating security checks
- Managing releases
- Troubleshooting and performance optimisation
- Team-based practical exercise
- Course summary and Q&A session
Optional Module – GitHub Copilot
- Exploring GitHub Copilot capabilities and workflow integration
- Using Copilot Chat and IDE integrations
- Crafting effective prompts for developers
- Generating and explaining code
- Refactoring and optimisation techniques
- Generating unit tests
- Debugging with Copilot assistance
- Automating documentation generation
- Utilising Copilot for pull requests and code reviews
- Best practices for responsible and secure use of AI-generated code
- Hands-on Copilot exercises
Requirements
To get the most out of this course, participants should bring:
- Hands-on experience using Git and GitHub
- A solid understanding of repositories, branches, commits, and pull requests
- Some familiarity with GitHub Actions (beneficial but not mandatory)
- General knowledge of software development workflows
14 Hours
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