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GitHub Fundamentals – Administration Basics and Product Features (GH-100T00)
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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.
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Course Outline and Details
Prerequisites
- GitHub Account
- A GitHub Account with an active subscription for GitHub Copilot is required for either your personal GitHub account or a GitHub account managed by an organization or enterprise. For learning purposes, the Copilot Free option with usage limits should be sufficient.
- Basic understanding of GitHub fundamentals
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.
Course Objectives
- Introduction to GitHub
- Introduction to GitHub administration
- Introduction to GitHub's products
- Maintain a secure repository by using GitHub best practices
- Manage sensitive data and security policies within GitHub
- Authenticate and authorize user identities on GitHub
- GitHub administration for enterprise support and adoption
- Manage GitHub Actions in the enterprise
- Leverage GitHub Actions to publish to GitHub Packages
Course Outline
GitHub fundamentals – Administration basics and product features Part 1 of 2
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
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
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
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
GitHub fundamentals – Administration basics and product features Part 2 of 2
Manage sensitive data and security policies within GitHub
- Setting security policies
- Create and manage repository rulesets
- Reporting and logging
- Exercise
Authenticate and authorize user identities on GitHub
- User identity and access management
- User authentication
- User authorization
- Team synchronization
GitHub administration for enterprise support and adoption
- GitHub Enterprise features
- Support for GitHub Enterprise
- Scale your enterprise deployment
- GitHub Enterprise Managed Users
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
Leverage GitHub Actions to publish to GitHub Packages
- What are GitHub Packages?
- Publish to GitHub Packages and GitHub Container Registry
- Knowledge check
- Exercise – Publish to a GitHub Packages registry
- GitHub Packages for code packages