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.

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.

Fundamental knowledge about Azure, version control, Agile software development, and core software development principles. It would be helpful to have experience in an organization that delivers software.

By the end of this course, students will be able to

• Identify core features of GitHub and manage repositories efficiently.
• Summarize organizational structures and permission management in GitHub.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization strategies.
• Maintain repository security with GitHub best practices and tools.
• Manage GitHub Actions and publish to GitHub Packages.
• Administer GitHub Enterprise support, user management, and automation.

Introduction to GitHub

• Identify the fundamental features of GitHub.
• Learn about repository management.
• Gain an understanding of the GitHub flow, which includes branches, commits, and pull requests.
• Explore the collaborative features of GitHub by reviewing issues and discussions.

Manage sensitive data and security policies within GitHub

• Create documentation that details security guidelines and useful information for collaborators.
• Set permissions and other rules.
• Automate processes that prevent security breaches.
• Respond to security breaches.

Authenticate and authorize user identities on GitHub

• Be able to describe the Authentication and Authorization Model.
• Understand how to manage user access to your GitHub organization through Authorization and Authentication tools.
• Identify the supported identity providers and technologies that support secure repository access.
• Understand the implications of enabling SAML SSO.
• Identify the authorization and authentication options available, and understand the administrator's role in enforcement of a secure access strategy for a GitHub enterprise.
• Describe how users access private information in a GitHub organization.
• Evaluate the benefits of enabling Team Synchronization to manage team membership.

GitHub administration for enterprise support and adoption

• Set up authentication with Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) single sign-on and a connection between Enterprise Server and Enterprise Cloud with GitHub Connect.
• Automate security and version updates for your project's dependencies, as well as administrative duties and user interactions with GitHub.
• Identify when to open a ticket with GitHub Enterprise Support to resolve issues.
• Recognize the capabilities of centrally managing your GitHub enterprise members through GitHub Enterprise Managed User accounts (EMUs).

Manage GitHub Actions in the enterprise

• Identify the different tools you can use at enterprise and organization levels to manage your actions and workflows.
• Evaluate what the appropriate runners are for your enterprise instance.
• Discover the different configurations available for self-hosted runners and customize them according to your enterprise use case.
• Understand what encrypted secrets are and how to use them in your actions and workflows.

Leverage GitHub Actions to publish to GitHub Packages