GH-100 – GitHub fundamentals – Administration basics and product features

About the Course

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.

There are currently no scheduled sessions available for this course. However, feel free to contact us for more information or to inquire about upcoming sessions.

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Course Outline

1. Introduction to GitHub
• What is GitHub?
• Components of the GitHub flow
• GitHub is a collaborative platform
• GitHub platform management

2. 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

3. 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

4. Maintain a secure repository by using GitHub best practices
• How to maintain a secure GitHub repository
• Automated security

5. Manage sensitive data and security policies within GitHub
• Setting security policies
• Create and manage repository rulesets
• Reporting and logging

6. Authenticate and authorize user identities on GitHub
• User identity and access management
• User authentication
• User authorization
• Team synchronization

7. GitHub administration for enterprise support and adoption
• GitHub Enterprise features
• Support for GitHub Enterprise
• Scale your enterprise deployment
• GitHub Enterprise Managed Users

8. 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

9. Leverage GitHub Actions to publish to GitHub Packages
• What is GitHub Packages?
• Publish to GitHub Packages and GitHub Container Registry
• GitHub Packages for code packages

Course Details

Pre-requisites

• Familiarity with personal and organizational authentication technologies and processes would be helpful.

Target 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.

Class Format

For online (live) format

There are currently no scheduled sessions available for this course. However, feel free to contact us for more information or to inquire about upcoming sessions.