GitHub Advanced – Advanced GitHub Development & Collaboration Training Course

Module 1 – Advanced Git & GitHub Workflows

• Advanced Git concepts and repository administration
• Branching strategies: GitFlow vs. trunk-based development
• Rebasing, merging, and cherry-picking techniques
• Interactive rebase operations
• Managing and resolving complex merge conflicts
• Tags, releases, and version control management
• Investigating and recovering Git history
• Best practices for large development teams

Module 2 – Advanced Pull Requests & Collaboration

• Designing efficient pull request workflows
• Utilizing draft pull requests and review strategies
• Implementing CODEOWNERS
• Configuring branch protection and rulesets
• Enforcing required reviews and status checks
• Managing large and long-running pull requests
• Setting up issue templates and pull request templates
• Using GitHub Projects
• Managing teams, permissions, and repository governance
• Practical exercise: designing an enterprise-style collaboration workflow

Module 3 – GitHub Actions & CI/CD

• Understanding GitHub Actions architecture
• Managing workflows, jobs, steps, and triggers
• Handling secrets, variables, and environments
• Conditional execution and job dependencies
• Utilizing matrix strategies
• Managing artifacts and caching
• Creating reusable workflows and composite actions
• Debugging and optimizing workflows
• Constructing CI pipelines
• Implementing automated testing and build workflows
• Handling 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
• Conducting dependency reviews
• Implementing secret scanning and push protection
• Performing code scanning
• Establishing security policies and vulnerability management
• Addressing supply-chain security
• Using the GitHub CLI
• Overview of the GitHub REST API
• Configuring Webhooks and integrations
• Automating repositories, issues, and pull requests
• Practical security and automation scenarios

Module 5 – End-to-End GitHub Workflow

• Designing a comprehensive GitHub development workflow
• Defining repository and branching strategies
• Establishing the pull request and code review process
• Implementing automated testing
• Building the CI/CD pipeline
• Incorporating security checks
• Managing releases
• Troubleshooting and optimization
• Team-based practical exercise
• Summary and Q&A

Optional Module – GitHub Copilot

• GitHub Copilot capabilities and workflow integration
• Using Copilot Chat and IDE integration
• Effective prompting techniques for developers
• Code generation and explanation
• Refactoring and optimization
• Generating unit tests
• Debugging with Copilot
• Generating documentation
• Using Copilot for pull requests and code review
• Responsible and secure use of AI-generated code
• Practical Copilot exercises