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DevOps Continuous Integration and Delivery: Implement GitFlow Principles

In this lab, you’ll practice working with a GitFlow configuration of version control. When you’re finished, you’ll have the skills necessary to make GitFlow work and keep your releases stable.

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(90)
Level
Beginner
Last updated
Aug 05, 2025
Duration
50m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Get Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Initialize the Repo

    To start the lab, you will set up GitFlow using simple git commands, and will populate the options with their choices. Once complete, you will execute some commands to examine the structure that has been created.

  3. Challenge

    Get Work Done with Feature Branches

    You will learn how to work with feature branches, the main unit of work that a typical developer will encounter in GitFlow.

  4. Challenge

    Create a Release

    To finish the lab, you create a release, will learn why the develop branch is useful, and will learn about the uses of the hotfix branch.

About the author

Chris B. Behrens is a writer, speaker and software developer, specializing in DevOps. He has been a developer and architect for more than twenty years focusing on small to medium size companies and the development changes they face.

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