GitHub Advanced – Advanced GitHub Development & Collaboration Training Course

Module 1 – Advanced Git & GitHub Workflows

• In-depth Git concepts and managing repositories
• Comparing branching strategies: GitFlow versus trunk-based development
• Techniques for rebasing, merging, and cherry-picking
• Utilizing interactive rebase
• Handling and resolving complex merge conflicts
• Managing tags, releases, and version control
• Investigating Git history and recovering data
• Best practices for large-scale development teams

Module 2 – Advanced Pull Requests & Collaboration

• Creating effective pull request workflows
• Implementing draft pull requests and review tactics
• Using CODEOWNERS
• Configuring branch protection and rulesets
• Enforcing required reviews and status checks
• Overseeing large and long-running pull requests
• Setting up issue and pull request templates
• Leveraging GitHub Projects
• Managing teams, permissions, and repository governance
• Hands-on exercise: creating an enterprise-grade collaboration workflow

Module 3 – GitHub Actions & CI/CD

• Understanding GitHub Actions architecture
• Managing workflows, jobs, steps, and triggers
• Handling secrets, variables, and environments
• Implementing conditional execution and job dependencies
• Applying matrix strategies
• Using artifacts and caching
• Creating reusable workflows and composite actions
• Debugging and optimizing workflows
• Constructing CI pipelines
• Automating testing and build processes
• Executing multi-environment deployments
• Automating releases
• Hands-on exercise: building a complete CI/CD pipeline

Module 4 – GitHub Security & Automation

• Exploring GitHub security features
• Utilizing Dependabot for dependency management
• Performing dependency reviews
• Implementing secret scanning and push protection
• Conducting code scanning
• Establishing security policies and vulnerability management
• Enhancing supply-chain security
• Using 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
• Establishing pull request and code review processes
• Automating testing
• Setting up CI/CD pipelines
• Implementing security checks
• Managing releases
• Troubleshooting and optimization techniques
• Group-based practical exercise
• Course summary and Q&A session

Optional Module – GitHub Copilot

• Capabilities and workflow integration of GitHub Copilot
• Using Copilot Chat and IDE integrations
• 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 reviews
• Responsible and secure usage of AI-generated code
• Practical exercises with Copilot