Git and GitHub Essentials

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to Git and GitHub, the world’s most widely used source control and collaboration platform. While GitHub is traditionally associated with software development, this course emphasizes its broader applicability across industries and roles, including documentation, research, infrastructure automation, marketing assets, and more.

Participants will learn the core principles of Software Configuration Management (SCM) and version control, gaining hands-on experience using Git for local version control and GitHub for collaboration, automation, and CI/CD workflows. The course also introduces modern DevOps practices, including GitHub Actions for continuous integration and deployment, secure authentication using SSH keys and tokens, and automation workflows targeting containerized and cloud-based environments.

In addition, learners will explore the use of AI-assisted development, including GitHub Copilot and Large Language Models (LLMs), to accelerate coding, configuration generation, and workflow automation.

• Understand the fundamentals of Git and Software Configuration Management (SCM)
• Create, manage, and collaborate on Git repositories locally and on GitHub
• Apply branching strategies and pull request workflows for team collaboration
• Use GitHub Actions to build CI/CD pipelines for testing, building, and deploying applications
• Secure GitHub access using SSH keys and authentication tokens
• Integrate GitHub with development tools such as Visual Studio Code
• Automate container builds and deployments using GitHub Actions
• Leverage AI tools such as GitHub Copilot and LLMs for coding and configuration assistance

• DevOps engineers
• Software and application developers
• Quality assurance and site reliability engineers
• Telecommunications and infrastructure professionals
• Marketing and sales engineers working with technical assets
• Managers, directors, and technical leaders
• Anyone seeking foundational knowledge of Git and SCM practices

There are no formal prerequisites for this course.It is suitable for beginners as well as professionals seeking to formalize their understanding of Git, GitHub, and modern collaboration workflows.