GitHub fundamentals - Administration basics and product features (GH-100)

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.

Target Audience
• DevOps Engineer 

Course Outline

1) GitHub fundamentals Administration basics and product features Part 1 of 2
• Introduction to GitHub
• 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
• Introduction to GitHub administration
• 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
• Introduction to GitHub's products
• 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
• Maintain a secure repository by using GitHub best practices
• 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• Detect and fix outdated dependencies with security vulnerabilities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

2) GitHub fundamentals Administration basics and product features Part 2 of 2
• Manage sensitive data and security policies within GitHub
• 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
• Authenticate and authorize user identities on GitHub
• 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
• GitHub administration for enterprise support and adoption
• 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)
• Manage GitHub Actions in the enterprise
• 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
• Leverage GitHub Actions to publish to GitHub Packages
• 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