GitHub Advanced – Advanced GitHub Development & Collaboration Training Course

Module 1 – Sophisticated Git & GitHub Workflows

• Advanced Git concepts and repository administration
• Branching methodologies: GitFlow compared to trunk-based development
• Rebasing, merging, and cherry-picking techniques
• Utilizing interactive rebase
• Handling and resolving complex merge conflicts
• Tags, releases, and version control management
• Investigating Git history and performing recovery tasks
• Best practices for large-scale engineering teams

Module 2 – Advanced Pull Requests & Collaboration

• Crafting efficient pull request procedures
• Draft pull requests and review methodologies
• CODEOWNERS implementation
• Branch protection mechanisms and rulesets
• Mandatory reviews and status checks
• Managing extensive and long-duration pull requests
• Issue templates and pull request templates
• GitHub Projects integration
• Teams, permissions, and repository governance
• Practical exercise: architecting an enterprise-grade collaboration framework

Module 3 – GitHub Actions & CI/CD

• GitHub Actions architecture
• Workflows, jobs, steps, and triggers
• Secrets, variables, and environment configuration
• Conditional execution logic and job dependencies
• Matrix strategies
• Artifacts and caching mechanisms
• Reusable workflows and composite actions
• Workflow debugging and performance optimization
• Constructing CI pipelines
• Automated testing and build processes
• Multi-environment deployment strategies
• Release automation
• Practical exercise: constructing an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline

Module 4 – GitHub Security & Automation

• GitHub security features
• Dependabot and dependency administration
• Dependency review processes
• Secret scanning and push protection
• Code scanning capabilities
• Security policies and vulnerability handling
• Supply-chain security measures
• GitHub CLI usage
• GitHub REST API overview
• Webhooks and third-party integrations
• Automating repositories, issues, and pull requests
• Practical security and automation scenarios

Module 5 – End-to-End GitHub Workflow

• Designing a comprehensive GitHub development lifecycle
• Repository structure and branching strategy
• Pull request and code review procedures
• Automated testing implementation
• CI/CD pipeline construction
• Security verification checks
• Release management
• Troubleshooting and performance tuning
• Team-based practical exercise
• Summary and Q&A

Optional Module – GitHub Copilot

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