Automate your workflow with GitHub Actions

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Define the difference between the different types of GitHub accounts: Personal, Organization, and Enterprise.
• Explain each GitHub plan: GitHub Free for personal accounts and organizations, GitHub Pro for personal accounts, GitHub Team, and GitHub Enterprise.
• Distinguish the features associated with accessing GitHub on GitHub Mobile and GitHub Desktop.
• Describe a brief overview of GitHub billing and payments.
• Identify the tools and GitHub features to establish a secure development strategy.
• Enable vulnerable dependency detection for private repositories.
• Detect and fix outdated dependencies with security vulnerabilities.
• Automate the detection of vulnerable dependencies with Dependabot.
• Add a security policy with a SECURITY.md file.
• Remove a commit exposing sensitive data in a pull request.
• Remove historical commits exposing sensitive data deep in your repository.
• 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.
• 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).
• Understand what a Package Repository is and when to use it.
• Set up a Continuous Integration (CI) workflow with GitHub Actions to publish to GitHub Packages.
• Validate your knowledge with an exercise that checks your ability to publish to a GitHub Packages registry.
• Identify how to authenticate, install, and manage GitHub Packages.

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.
 

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

GitHub fundamentals - Administration basics and product features Part 1 of 2 Introduction to GitHub

• Introduction
• 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

• Introduction
• 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

• Introduction
• 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

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

GitHub fundamentals - Administration basics and product features Part 2 of 2 Manage sensitive data and security policies within GitHub

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

Authenticate and authorize user identities on GitHub

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

GitHub administration for enterprise support and adoption

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

Manage GitHub Actions in the enterprise

• Introduction
• 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

• Introduction
• 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