GitHub Training Overview
This CI/CD with GitHub training course teaches teams how to implement continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines leveraging Git and GitHub. Attendees get extensive hands-on exposure to GitHub Actions, building CI/CD pipelines from scratch while learning best practices.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
All students will:
- Describe what CI/CD is and why it is beneficial
- Create custom CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions
- Understand the benefits of managing infrastructure as code
- Gain a good understanding of how to integrate external systems into GitHub
- Know best practices when implementing CI/CD pipelines
- Get exposure to containerization and creating images
Prerequisites
- Experience with Git (students should be comfortable working with Git from the command-line, leveraging branches, merging, pushing, pulling and opening merge/pull requests via a remote GitLab, GitHub, etc.).
- Experience with the command-line or DOS command prompt.
- Experience with Docker and the concepts of containerization is beneficial but not required.
Outline
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Introduction to GitHub
- Overview of features
- How GitHub fits into the SDLC
- Comparison to other platforms
Introduction to CI/CD
- What is CI/CD
- The typical CI/CD workflow in GitHub
- Benefits of CI/CD and best practices
Defining a typical GitHub Workflow with Actions
Running within your own infrastructure
- Intro to Runners
- When might you use a runner?
- Hosted, Self-hosted and local runners
- Advanced Runner Options
Advanced Workflows
- Triggering workflows and actions
- Composite Actions
- DRY / publishing and/or sharing frequently used actions
- Leveraging Docker and JavaScript within Actions
- Managing usage restrictions/limits
Environment Variables and Permissioning
- Defining shared variables
- Keeping secrets safe
- Permissions and Job Policies
- Best practices
Artifacts & Dependencies
- Creating and leverage artifacts from your actions
- Managing artifacts / storage
- Managing artifact dependencies between actions
Deployments Strategies
- Push vs Pull based deployments
- Building and leveraging container images
- Using a container registry
Advanced Pipeline Actions
- Security Scanning
- License Audits
- Scheduled Jobs
Migrating from your existing CI system (Optional - topic is customized based on team needs)
- CircleCI
- Jenkins
- Travic
- GitLab / BitBucket
Conclusion
Training Materials
All Git training attendees receive comprehensive course materials.
Software Requirements
- Git 2.x or later
- Internet access for all attendees and the instructor
