Github Advanced Training
Run GitHub Enterprise at scale with high availability and clustering, migrate repositories in, and enforce security and policy. Learn Github through a clear Foundation to Advanced path, with hands-on labs, live cohort options, certification support and full LMS access.
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Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Github levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
About Github Advanced Training.
Understand where Github fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
Github is taught as a practical technical skill for modern engineering, operations and platform teams. The course explains where the tool fits, how it is used in real delivery environments, and how learners can apply it through guided practice.
This DevOpsSchool Github program is built for working professionals who want usable skills instead of only conceptual exposure. The training emphasizes live examples, workflow clarity, operational controls and progressive skill depth from Foundation to Advanced.
Private Github training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate Github training for teams that need faster adoption, workflow standardization, administrative control, integration guidance and governance-ready rollout. Private batches can be aligned to development practice, release workflow, access model, maturity level and internal tooling.
- Private online or classroom delivery for engineering teams
- Aligned to Github usage maturity, admin depth and collaboration patterns
- Useful for rollout, migration, governance and workflow consistency goals
- Can be tailored for developers, administrators, DevOps teams and leadership stakeholders
Why teams use DevOpsSchool
DevOpsSchool combines live demonstration, practical workflow discussion, implementation-oriented examples, and strong post-session learning support. That makes the training more usable for real teams than generic slide-led courses.
Choose any level. The page still shows the full progression.
Foundation, Essential, Intermediate and Advanced are presented as one linked training flow. Self-paced buyers get all levels by default, even if they start from only one course page.
Instructor-led, self-paced and corporate delivery options.
Compare delivery format, duration, level access and batch style. Fees are shown only in the top decision panel and once again after the agenda.
| Duration | Mode | Level access | Batch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | Live & Interactive | Advanced | Public batch |
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | 1:1 Live training | Advanced | Starts immediately |
| 1 year LMS access | Self-paced video | All 4 levels | Anytime access |
| 5 Days | Corporate | Github Advanced Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after Github training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Collaborate effectively on GitHub
Use repositories, issues, pull requests, Projects, releases and Pages to deliver work as a team.
Automate and secure repositories
Apply rulesets, Actions, webhooks, APIs and Advanced Security to keep code quality and policy consistent.
Administer GitHub Enterprise Server
Install, configure, monitor, back up, scale and migrate into a GitHub Enterprise Server instance.
Why this skill, what you will achieve, and who should attend.
Use this section to decide whether the course matches your role, current experience and expected Github responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why Github matters
- Github helps teams standardize a critical part of their software delivery, infrastructure, automation or operations workflow.
- It gives learners a repeatable way to move from basic usage to confident execution in team and enterprise environments.
- For DevOps and platform teams, Github becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using Github effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand Github concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply Github in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use Github for individual, team and organizational use cases.
Pre-requisites
- Basic computer literacy and familiarity with software development workflows.
- Helpful but not mandatory: introductory DevOps, cloud, automation or software delivery awareness.
- No deep programming background is required for the Foundation and Essential levels.
Who this course is for
- Developers, administrators and engineers who need practical Github usage skills.
- DevOps engineers, release engineers, SREs and platform teams managing delivery standards.
- Engineering leads and technical managers responsible for workflow quality, access controls and governance.
- Corporate teams migrating to or standardizing on Github.
Small-batch live training starts every month.
Weekday batches start on the 1st and weekend batches on the first Saturday of every month. One-to-one (1:1) training can start immediately; corporate sessions are scheduled on demand.
Weekend live batch
Starts on the first Saturday of every month. Weekend sessions with demos, labs and Q&A; max 10 learners.
Weekday live batch
Starts on the 1st of every month. Weekday sessions for working professionals and distributed teams; max 10 learners.
Ask advisorAgenda depth up to the selected level.
This page shows the learning flow from Foundation through Advanced. Each level adds to the previous one, and the agenda stops at the current page level. Day counts are for corporate (day-wise) delivery; live online batches cover the same agenda in max 8 to 10 hours.
Foundation Level: accounts, repositories and the GitHub flowDay 1
- GitHub platform overview: GitHub.com, GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Enterprise Server and how they differ
- Exploring projects on GitHub: repositories, README files, stars, forks, topics and Explore
- Setting up and managing your GitHub user account: account settings, emails, privacy and basic account settings
- Setting up and managing your GitHub profile: profile README, pinned repositories and contribution graph
- Authenticating to GitHub: two-factor authentication, passkeys, SSH keys and fine-grained personal access tokens
- Creating, cloning and archiving repositories: visibility, licence and .gitignore choices, gh repo clone
- Managing files in a repository: web editor, uploads, github.dev and committing from the browser
- Writing on GitHub: GitHub Flavored Markdown, task lists, mentions, code blocks and Mermaid diagrams
- GitHub flow: creating a branch, making commits, opening a pull request, reviewing and merging
- Receiving notifications about activity on GitHub: watching, the notifications inbox and email routing
- Searching for information on GitHub: code search syntax, qualifiers for issues, PRs and repositories
- GitHub Desktop and GitHub CLI: installing GitHub Desktop, gh auth login, gh repo and gh pr create
Essential Level = Foundation + collaboration, issues, projects, Pages and releasesDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- Collaborating with issues and pull requests: issue forms, labels, milestones, linked PRs and draft PRs
- Pull request reviews: review comments, suggested changes, re-requesting review and merge, squash or rebase
- Managing repository collaborators: repository roles (read, triage, write, maintain, admin) and invitations
- Setting up and managing organizations and teams: organization roles, nested teams and team mentions
- Managing remotes: origin and upstream remotes, keeping forks in sync and fork-based workflows
- Managing large files: file size limits, Git LFS tracking and storage quotas
- Working with non-code files: rendering CSV, GeoJSON, images, PDFs, 3D files and Jupyter notebooks
- Tags, branches and releases: GitHub Releases, release assets and auto-generated release notes
- Managing your work on GitHub: GitHub Projects tables, boards, roadmaps, custom fields and automation
- Visualizing repository data with graphs: Insights, contributors, traffic, network and dependency graph
- Gists and wiki: creating public and secret gists, repository wiki pages and sidebars
- GitHub Pages basics: publishing from a branch or GitHub Actions and project, user and organization sites
- Customizing GitHub Pages: Jekyll themes, custom domains, HTTPS enforcement and 404 pages
- Importing your projects to GitHub: GitHub Importer, git push --mirror and moving an existing repository
Intermediate Level = Essential + automation and GitHub Enterprise Server administrationDay 3 · 3 days cumulative
- Administering a repository: rulesets, branch protection, CODEOWNERS, merge options and repository settings
- GitHub Actions basics: workflows, events, jobs, hosted and self-hosted runners, secrets and CI on pull requests
- Automating GitHub: webhooks, REST and GraphQL APIs, GitHub Apps and scripting with gh api
- Installing and configuring GitHub Enterprise: system overview, platforms (VMware, Hyper-V, AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Setting up a GitHub Enterprise instance: provisioning the appliance VM, uploading the licence, Management Console
- Configuring the GitHub Enterprise appliance: hostname, TLS, email, ghe-config and the administrative shell
- Configuring your GitHub Enterprise network settings: DNS, proxy, firewall ports, load balancer and PROXY protocol
- Monitoring your GitHub Enterprise appliance: monitor dashboards, collectd, SNMP and log forwarding
- Updating the virtual machine and physical resources: upgrades, hotpatches, adding CPU, memory and storage
- Configuring Git Large File Storage on GitHub Enterprise: enabling LFS for the instance and per repository
- GitHub Enterprise user management guide: authenticating users for your instance with LDAP, SAML, CAS or built-in
- Organizations, teams and user security: site admins, suspending users, 2FA enforcement and SSH key policies
- Repositories on GitHub Enterprise: creation, visibility, forking and deletion policies for the instance
- Backup and restore: GitHub Enterprise Server Backup Utilities, ghe-backup, ghe-restore and restore testing
Advanced Level = Intermediate + high availability, clustering, migration and governanceDays 4-5 · 5 days cumulative
- Configuring GitHub Enterprise for high availability: replica appliances, ghe-repl-setup, failover and geo-replication
- GitHub Enterprise clustering guide: clustering overview and differences between clustering and high availability (HA)
- Setting up the cluster instances: cluster.conf, node roles and initialising the cluster
- Managing a GitHub Enterprise cluster: monitoring nodes, evacuating services, upgrades and node replacement
- Migrating user, organization and repository data: ghe-migrator and GitHub Enterprise Importer
- Exporting migration data from GitHub Enterprise and from GitHub.com: migration archives and the Migrations API
- Importing migration data to GitHub Enterprise: prepare, resolve conflicts, map, import and unlock
- Importing data from third-party version control systems: Subversion, Mercurial, TFVC, Bitbucket and GitLab
- Developer workflow guide: blocking force pushes and establishing pull request merge conditions
- Webhooks and pre-receive hooks: using webhooks for continuous integration and pre-receive hooks to enforce policy
- Connecting GitHub Enterprise and GitHub.com: GitHub Connect, unified contributions, Dependabot and license sync
- GitHub Advanced Security: code scanning with CodeQL, secret scanning, push protection and Dependabot alerts
- Governance and capacity: enterprise policies, audit log streaming, usage tracking and performance tuning
- Working with GitHub Support: Enterprise and Premium Support, support bundles and receiving help
Choose live training or a full year of self-paced access.
If someone buys Foundation, Essential, Intermediate or Advanced as self-paced video, the price stays the same and access is granted to all four levels by default.
Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Github levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
- Start immediately: no waiting for the monthly batch.
- One learner, one trainer: full attention on your questions.
- Sessions planned around your working hours.
- Your pace, with examples from your own projects and tools.
Method of training and assessment.
The course emphasizes practical demonstration, hands-on labs and assignment-based validation instead of passive lecture-only learning.
| SL | Method of training and assessment | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understanding the problem space | 5% |
| 2 | Concept discussion | 10% |
| 3 | Live demo and walkthrough | 25% |
| 4 | Lab and hands-on exercises | 50% |
| 5 | Assignments and evaluation | 10% |
Labs, exercises and real workflow practice.
Every level moves from explanation to hands-on practice, review and troubleshooting.
Ship a first change with GitHub flow
Create a secured account and repository, clone it, make changes on a branch and merge them through a reviewed pull request.
Run a team project on GitHub
Organise a small project with issues and a Projects board, review each other's pull requests, publish a release and a GitHub Pages site.
Stand up GitHub Enterprise Server
Install a GitHub Enterprise Server appliance, configure TLS, LDAP or SAML login and LFS, add a CI workflow and take and restore a backup.
Highly available, governed GitHub Enterprise
Configure a high-availability replica and fail over, migrate repositories from another system and enforce rulesets, pre-receive hooks and secret scanning.
Github is taught as part of a working delivery ecosystem.
You learn where the tool sits in the wider engineering workflow, not in isolation.
Core foundations
Terminology, concepts, architecture and the operating model behind the tool.
Workflow traceability
Map practical work to tasks, approvals, documentation and delivery visibility.
Automation and integration
Use Github with validation checks, automation hooks and delivery workflows.
Governance controls
Operate with permissions, approvals, policy checks and production-safe workflows.
How your practical work is assessed.
Your certificate is backed by labs, assignments, capstone thinking and completion evidence.
Assignments
Level-specific assignments verify setup, configuration, workflow quality and operating discipline.
Hands-on validation
Learners are expected to complete practical usage, automation and troubleshooting exercises.
Completion record
Certificate issuance is tied to demonstrated participation, practical completion and course-level coverage.
Led by Rajesh Kumar and the DevOpsSchool practitioner network.
Training is grounded in practical DevOps, SRE, security, release and platform engineering experience with real enterprise delivery context.
Earn a DevOpsSchool Github certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected Github level.
Certificate verificationCertificate of Completion
Github Advanced Training
Unique credential ID, verifiable online
What learners say about training with Rajesh Kumar.
“Rajesh is very good trainer. Rajesh was able to resolve our queries and question effectively. We really liked the hands-on examples covered during this training program.”
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“The training was very useful and interactive. Rajesh helped develop the confidence of all.”
Rated 4.6 on Google · All testimonials · Video reviews on YouTube
Quoted as published, from learners in Rajesh Kumar's live trainings across DevOpsSchool courses.
Used by developers, DevOps engineers, release leads and engineering managers.
Private batches are available for teams that want the same agenda aligned to their own tools and workflows.
Why this Github path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool Github Training | Typical short course |
|---|---|---|
| Levels | Foundation, Essential, Intermediate, Advanced | Single generic syllabus |
| Self-paced access | All four levels plus 20+ courses and 50+ tools | Usually one course only |
| Live training | Demos, labs, Q&A and assignment review | Often lecture-heavy |
| Certificate | DevOpsSchool completion certificate | Varies by provider |
Questions learners ask before joining.
Does Foundation cost less than Advanced?
No. Self-paced pricing is intentionally the same because access includes all four levels by default.
What is included in the yearly subscription?
One year of complete LMS access, all four levels for the selected course, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
Can corporate teams request customization?
Yes. The live format can be aligned to team tools, governance requirements, workflows and internal delivery standards.
What is the recommended sequence?
Foundation → Essential → Intermediate → Advanced. The agenda is designed so each level builds on the previous one.
Talk to DevOpsSchool before choosing the batch.
Use this support section for batch questions, corporate planning, LMS access clarifications, or guidance on which Github level fits your team.
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Tool-focused training
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Live batch experience
Training supports live online, private team and workshop-style delivery.
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