GitHub fundamentals - Administration basics and product features (GH-100T00)

Reference : GH-100T00

Duration : 1 day

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In this course, you'll learn the basics of GitHub and gain a better understanding of its fundamental features with a hands-on exercise all within a GitHub repository. You'll learn best practices for building, hosting, and maintaining a secure repository on GitHub.

Audience

This course in intended for students who want to understand and GitHub best practices. You will understand the fundamental features of GitHub, learn about repository management, gain an understanding of the GitHub flow, including branches, commits, and pull requests. Additionally, you will explore the collaborative features of GitHub by reviewing issues and discussions and be able to manage your GitHub notifications and subscriptions.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students should have :

• Basic familiarity with software development concepts
• General computer literacy
• No prior GitHub experience is required, but any experience with Git or other version control systems is helpful.

Objectives

• Understand GitHub core concepts and workflows
• Navigate and use GitHub repositories, branches, and pull requests
• Learn basic GitHub administration tasks and settings
• Explore essential GitHub product features
• Implement collaboration and code review best practices
• Manage user permissions and repository security

Contents

Introduction to GitHub

• What is GitHub?
• Components of the GitHub flow
• GitHub is a collaborative platform
• GitHub platform management
• Exercise - A guided tour of GitHub
• Module assessment

Introduction to GitHub administration

• What is GitHub administration?
• How does GitHub authentication work?
• How does GitHub organization and permissions work?
• Managing enterprise access, permissions, and governance
• Module assessment

Introduction to GitHub's products

• GitHub accounts and plans
• GitHub Mobile and GitHub Desktop
• GitHub billing
• License Usage Stats
• License Usage Stats in Machine and Peripheral Devices
• Metered Usage Reports
• Module assessment

Maintain a secure repository by using GitHub best practices

• How to maintain a secure GitHub repository
• Automated security
• Exercise - Secure your repository's supply chain
• Module assessment

Manage sensitive data and security policies within GitHub

• Setting security policies
• Create and manage repository rulesets
• Reporting and logging
• Exercise
• Module assessment

Authenticate and authorize user identities on GitHub

• User identity and access management
• User authentication
• User authorization
• Team synchronization
• Module assessment

GitHub administration for enterprise support and adoption

• GitHub Enterprise features
• Support for GitHub Enterprise
• Scale your enterprise deployment
• GitHub Enterprise Managed Users
• Module assessment

Manage GitHub Actions in the enterprise

• Understanding GitHub enterprise models
• Manage actions and workflows
• Control access and usage of actions in your enterprise
• Managing and leveraging reusable components in GitHub Actions
• Manage runners
• Configure self-hosted runners for enterprise use
• Manage encrypted secrets
• Exercise - Use a repository secret in a GitHub Actions workflow
• Module assessment

Leverage GitHub Actions to publish to GitHub Packages

• What is GitHub Packages?
• Publish to GitHub Packages and GitHub Container Registry
• Knowledge check
• Exercise - Publish to a GitHub Packages registry
• GitHub Packages for code packages
• Module assessment