GitHub - Admin Basics and Product Features (GH-100T00)
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Learning Track
Cloud Developer
Delivery methods
On-Site, Virtual
Duration
1 day
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.
Course objectives
- 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.
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 outline
- 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
- Recognize how to manage your GitHub notifications and subscriptions
- Lab: A guided tour of GitHub
- Summarize the organizational structures and permission levels that GitHub administrators can use to organize members in order to control access and security
- Identify the various technologies that enable a secure authentication strategy allowing administrators to centrally manage repository access
- Describe the technologies required to centrally manage teams and members using existing directory information services
- Describe how you can use GitHub itself as an identity provider for authentication and authorization
- 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
- Lab: Secure your repository's supply chain
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- Lab: Use a repository secret in a GitHub Actions workflow
- 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
- Lab: Publish to a GitHub Packages registry
