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Microsoft

GitHub fundamentals - Administration basics and product features.

Microsoft via Microsoft Learn

Overview

  • Module 1: Learn to use key GitHub features, including issues, notifications, branches, commits, and pull requests.
  • In this module, you will:

    • Communicate with the project community in issues
    • Manage notifications for project events
    • Create branches to manage work in parallel
    • Make commits to update project source
    • Introduce changes with pull requests
    • Deploy a web page to GitHub Pages
  • Module 2: Understand the security and control measures available to GitHub administrators within an organization or enterprise.
  • By the end of this module, you will be able to:

    • 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 and how GitHub can itself be used as an identity provider for authentication and authorization.
  • Module 3: Overview GitHub's products, associated features, and licensing of per-use and metered features.
  • After completing this module, you will be able to:

    • Explain the difference between each GitHub product, and which features are available with each product.
    • Make key distinctions between plans, account types, teams, repository permissions, organization permission levels, and so on.
    • Describe licensing terms for GitHub Actions, GitHub Packages, and Codespaces.

Syllabus

  • Module 1: Introduction to GitHub
    • Introduction
    • What is GitHub?
    • Exercise - A guided tour of GitHub
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary
  • Module 2: Introduction to GitHub administration
    • Introduction
    • What is GitHub administration?
    • How does GitHub authentication work?
    • How does GitHub organization and permissions work?
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary
  • Module 3: Introduction to GitHub's Products
    • Introduction
    • What are GitHub's products?
    • How does licensing work for GitHub features?
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary

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