Better DevOps using GitHub for Inner-Source in the Azure Cloud

Course Overview

With over 50 million users worldwide and 100 million repositories, GitHub is the center of the open source universe. Yet GitHub is also a wonderful platform for practicing good DevOps with your private and inner-source projects. You and your teams can use GitHub to help you deliver value and build quality into any app, written using your preferred coding language, on your platforms of choice. You can build and deploy both to the cloud and self-host servers.

You’ll learn what GitHub Cloud has to offer and how you can use it effectively to deliver value to your customers. Because of its rich, open-source heritage you’ll see the service is fully extensible and integrates with popular services and platforms, so you’re never locked in.

In this 3-day, hands-on course, you will learn how you can apply good DevOps principles so you and your team can deliver value as fast as your customers need and expect.

Key Learning Areas

Attendees will acquire first-hand experience using GitHub and the features that it offers:

How you, your team, and company should create an organization using GitHub
How to on-board developers and stakeholders
How you can use GitHub Issues and Projects to track and manage your team’s work
How to use GitHub Repos for distributed version control of your team’s assets using Git and supporting tools
How to use GitHub Actions to create build pipelines to package up your applications
How to use GitHub Actions to publish your applications and other items to the cloud or on-premises
How to create, host, and share packages with your team, and add artifacts to your pipelines with GitHub Packages

Each course module consists of a lecture followed by a hands-on lab designed to reinforce the principles presented during lecture.

Course Outline

A Day in the Life of a Developer

Level set of “what is DevOps”
Overview GitHub
Examine an end-to-end workflow
Strategies for building quality solutions
Examine Organization and Team configuration
- Logins
- Notifications
- The core features that every team member needs to know

GitHub Repos: Using Git Effectively

Git repos are the center of your work in GitHub. Learn how to collaborate and build better code with pull requests and advanced file management.

Centralized vs decentralized version control
Defining and managing repos
Don’t fear the command-line
Working with branches
Pull Requests
IDEs and Tools
The GitHub Command-line

Collaboration with GitHub with Issues and More

GitHub provides a variety of mechanisms to track work and collaborate.

Plan, track, and discuss work across your teams
What does every team member need to know?
Public vs private repos
GitHub Issues
Project Boards
Millstones
Team Discussions
Pages and Wikis
Repository Insights
Basically, “just enough project management” to support full DevOps traceability

GitHub Actions: Building Quality-In

Build and test with continuous integration that works with any language, platform, and cloud.

Defining Quality Gates
GitHub Actions for Builds
Understanding Runners
Digging into YAML Build Definitions
Testing with Build
- Unit Testing
- Code Coverage
Managing and Sharing Build Definitions

GitHub Actions: Releasing to the World

Use continuous deployment to get your apps deployed.

Understanding deployment models
GitHub Actions for Releases
YAML Release Extensions
Accessing external services
Staging releases
Defining approval processes and quality gates
Deployment Groups and Targets
Managing and Sharing Release Definitions

GitHub Packages Sharing Code Effectively

Why and what of the service
Integrating with GitHub Actions
Designing your repos to better support sharing
Updating your workflow to support collective ownership mindset
Branching strategies
Applying Open Source Software principles to internal development

Write Better, More Secure Code with GitHub

Tour of GitHub Related Security Features
Secret scanning
Dependabot
Required Reviews
Role-based access Control
Auditing
Introduction to CodeQL

Deliver Higher Quality Solutions

Continuous Feedback
Involving Stakeholders
Integrating Automated Tests with Actions
Building Integration Tests
Running UAT Tests
Quality Tracking and Reporting
GitHub Analytics

Extending GitHub: Azure Boards

Use Azure Boards with GitHub when you need richer project tracking and visualization

Plan, track, and discuss work across your teams
What does every team member need to know?
Organizing and refining the Product Backlog
Planning and executing a Sprint
- Limiting work in progress (WIP)
- Working in small batches
- Creating and accepting a definition of “Done”
Using queries, charts, and dashboards for basic reporting

Who Benefits

This course is primarily designed for software developers who want to learn how to work with GitHub Cloud to manage and build cloud-based applications. The hands-on labs involve mostly configuration with some light coding. Coding is done in C#. Non-developers including Scrum Masters, Product owners, and more test focused engineers can attend and pair with developers as needed but will find most areas of the course valuable even if they don’t write code.

In order to work along with the labs, attendees must have the following:

A modern web browser like Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox, or Safari on macOS. Internet Explorer is NOT supported.
An Azure subscription (Azure Pass, MSDN subscription, free trial, company subscription, etc.)
Visual Studio Code on Windows or macOS
Local administrative permissions to install additional tools that may be required during the course of the labs

Prerequisites

Basic programming experience, preferably in C# with Visual Studio.

Want this course for your team?

Atmosera can provide this course virtually or on-site. Please reach out to discuss your requirements.

Atmosera is thrilled to announce that we have been named GitHub AI Partner of the Year.