GitHub Enterprise

In this comprehensive course, you will learn how to:

• Support GitHub Enterprise users and stakeholders by troubleshooting issues, generating diagnostics, and recommending best practices
• Manage user identities and authentication through SAML SSO, 2FA, and identity providers
• Understand GitHub's deployment models, licensing, and billing for products like Actions and Packages
• Control access and permissions at the enterprise, organization, team, and repository levels
• Implement security features and compliance policies to safeguard your software development
• Leverage GitHub Actions to automate workflows and manage runners and secrets
• Utilize GitHub Packages to manage and share packages across your enterprise

Whether you're a new or experienced GitHub Enterprise administrator, this course will equip you with the knowledge and skills to effectively manage and secure your organization's software development on GitHub.

Week 1: Introduction to GitHub Enterprise Administration

• Course overview and objectives
• Distinguishing admin tasks from GitHub Support (1.1)
• Generating support bundles and diagnostics (1.2)
• Identifying underutilized features and active teams/repositories (1.3)
• Recommending standards for developer workflows (1.4)

Week 2: User Identity and Access Management

• Enabling and enforcing SAML SSO (2.1, 2.2)
• Requiring two-factor authentication (2FA) (2.3)
• Choosing and integrating identity providers (2.4, 2.5)
• Understanding authentication and authorization models (2.7)
• Contrasting team synchronization and SCIM (2.9, 2.10)

Week 3: GitHub Deployment, Distribution, and Licensing

• Comparing GHES, GHEC, and GHAE capabilities (3.1.1-3.1.3)
• Differentiating billing for licenses, Actions, and Packages (3.2.1, 3.2.2)
• Finding license usage statistics (3.3, 3.4)
• Explaining metered product consumption (3.5)

Week 4: Access and Permissions Management

• Configuring enterprise permissions and policies (4.1.1-4.1.5)
• Defining organization permissions and roles (4.2.1-4.2.7)
• Managing team permissions and inheritance (4.3.1-4.3.3)
• Auditing and granting repository permissions (4.4.1-4.4.3)

Week 5: Secure Development and Compliance

• Supporting enterprise security posture (5.1)
• Scrubbing sensitive data from repositories (5.2.1, 5.2.2)
• Defining and implementing policies (5.3-5.6)
• Leveraging audit logs for asset tracking (5.7.1, 5.7.2)
• Enabling repository security features (5.9.1-5.10.6)
• Creating security response plans (5.11)
• Managing SSH keys and deploy keys (5.12)

Week 6: GitHub Actions Administration

• Distributing actions and workflows (6.1.1-6.1.5)
• Managing runners for the enterprise (6.2.1-6.2.8)
• Handling encrypted secrets (6.3.1-6.3.5)

Week 7: GitHub Packages Management

• Introducing supported GitHub Packages (7.1)
• Accessing, writing and sharing packages (7.2)
• Integrating packages with workflows (7.3)
• Comparing packages and releases (7.4)