Version Control with Git
Learn how to use Git to track changes, review history, create branches, and manage ignored files for infrastructure and operations work. This course introduces the version control habits that help teams manage scripts, configuration, and deployment assets without losing change history or collaboration clarity.
Why It Matters
Operations work increasingly depends on versioned configuration, automation code, and documented change history. Without version control, it is difficult to understand what changed, roll back mistakes, or collaborate safely on shared operational assets. Git gives teams a structured way to manage those changes, and it is now a baseline skill across DevOps workflows.
What You Will Learn
- Configure Git for local use and understand core identity settings.
- Initialize repositories and start tracking files intentionally.
- Review history and working-tree changes to understand what has been modified.
- Use branches to separate work instead of mixing unrelated changes together.
- Ignore generated or irrelevant files with
.gitignore. - Apply these skills to an operations-focused configuration management challenge.
Course Roadmap
The course begins with Git setup and configuration so your repositories record the right author identity and basic defaults. You then initialize a local repository and start tracking files, building the foundation for versioned work.
Next, the course focuses on history and change inspection, helping you understand what has changed and how Git records that evolution over time. After that, you learn branching basics so you can separate experiments or feature work from the main line of development.
The final lab covers .gitignore, which keeps irrelevant files out of version control and makes repositories cleaner to maintain. The course ends with the Ops Config Management challenge, where repository setup, change tracking, branching, and ignore rules support a practical operations workflow.
Who This Course Is For
This course is for Linux learners and DevOps beginners who need version control for scripts, configuration files, and operational documentation, not just application source code.
Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to set up a Git repository, track and review changes, isolate work on branches, and manage which files belong in version control as part of a more disciplined operations workflow.
