Gain a comprehensive understanding of GitHub and master its fundamental features through hands-on exercises within an actual GitHub repository. This course teaches best practices for building, hosting, maintaining, and securing repositories on GitHub, making it essential for developers at all stages of their careers.
Who Should Attend?
This course is designed for students and developers who want to understand GitHub thoroughly and apply best practices in their work. You will develop a solid grasp of GitHub's core features, master repository management techniques, understand the GitHub flow, including how to work with branches, commits, and pull requests, and explore GitHub's collaborative features such as issues and discussions. You will also learn to manage your GitHub notifications and subscriptions effectively.
Course Prerequisites:
Familiarity with personal and organizational authentication technologies and processes is helpful but not required to succeed in this course.
Course Outline:
- Introduction to GitHub: core concepts and platform overview
- Introduction to GitHub administration: managing settings and access
- Introduction to GitHub products: exploring the full ecosystem available
- Maintain a secure repository by implementing GitHub best practices
- Manage sensitive data and establish security policies within GitHub
- Authenticate and authorize user identities on GitHub using various methods
- GitHub administration for enterprise support: scaling and adoption strategies
- Manage GitHub Actions in the enterprise: automation and workflow integration
- Leverage GitHub Actions to publish to GitHub Packages: distribution and integration
