GitHub fundamentals - Administration basics and product features

• DevOps Engineers looking to streamline support escalation, automate administrative tasks with GitHub APIs, and optimize CI/CD pipelines across enterprise environments

• Developers seeking to build secure, consistent workflows, extend GitHub’s capabilities with Marketplace integrations, and enhance team productivity

• Solution Architects interested in scaling collaboration through Enterprise Teams and Apps, improving governance, and designing resilient, automated development infrastructures

• Enterprise-level GitHub management – You’ll learn to effectively manage GitHub Enterprise environments at scale
• Security and compliance mastery – You’ll gain skills in implementing secure workflows, managing permissions, and ensuring compliance across the enterprise
• Automation expertise – You’ll master CI/CD pipeline creation and workflow automation using GitHub Actions
• Support readiness – You’ll learn to build support bundles, triage incidents, and make informed escalation decisions
• Integration capabilities – You’ll understand how to extend GitHub functionality through APIs, Marketplace Apps, and custom Actions

1. 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
2. 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
3. Introduction to GitHub’s products
   • Introduction
   • GitHub accounts and plans
   • GitHub Mobile and GitHub Desktop
   • GitHub billing
   • License Usage Stats
   • Metered Usage Reports
4. Maintain a secure repository by using GitHub best practices
   • Introduction
   • How to maintain a secure GitHub repository
   • Automated security
   • Exercise – Add a .gitignore file
5. Manage sensitive data and security policies within GitHub
   • Introduction
   • Setting security policies
   • Create and manage repository rulesets
   • Reporting and logging
   • Exercise – Remove commit history
6. Authenticate and authorize user identities on GitHub
   • Introduction
   • User identity and access management
   • User authentication
   • User authorization
   • Team synchronization
7. GitHub administration for enterprise support and adoption
   • Introduction
   • GitHub Enterprise features
   • Support for GitHub Enterprise
   • Scale your enterprise deployment
   • GitHub Enterprise Managed Users
8. Manage GitHub Actions in the enterprise
   • Introduction
   • Understanding GitHub Enterprise models
   • Manage actions and workflows
   • Control access and usage of actions
   • Managing reusable components
   • Manage runners
   • Configure self-hosted runners
   • Manage encrypted secrets
   • Exercise – Use repository secrets in workflows
9. Leverage GitHub Actions to publish to GitHub Packages
   • Introduction
   • What is GitHub Packages?
   • Publish to GitHub Packages and Container Registry
   • Exercise – Publish to GitHub Packages registry
   • GitHub Packages for code packages

• Basic understanding of software development concepts and experience with at least one programming/scripting language

• Familiarity with GitHub, including version control workflows (branching, pull requests)

• General knowledge of enterprise environments and development at scale

• Experience with IDEs and collaborative development tools

• Working knowledge of CI/CD practices

•  manual in electronic form available on the platform: https://learn.microsoft.com/pl-pl/training/

• access to Altkom Akademia's student portal

Training method:

• Lecture (90%)
• Interactive Knowledge Checks (10%)

• Training: English

• Materials: English

On-line exam. Record at https://home.pearsonvue.com/Clients/Microsoft.aspx

GitHub Administration

Exam URL:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/certifications/github-administration/?practice-assessment-type=certification