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DevOps Foundations: Work Effectively with Version Control in DevOps

In this lab, you’ll practice the essentials of version control. When you’re finished, you’ll know how to use version control to keep your work safe.

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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Jul 30, 2025
Duration
1h 55m

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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

    Create a New Repository

    You have just joined Globomantics, a small advertising company that is looking to do some client work via software, which will need version control. Your previous company had admins that handled all of the Git work, but in this new company, that responsibility will fall to you.

  3. Challenge

    Check in Your Work

    Commits are the life blood of a version control repository, and branches allow you to isolate work. You'll learn to commit, and to work with branches effectively.

  4. Challenge

    Work with Git Stash

    Mistakes may happen on the primary branch. One useful tool to recover from such errors is the git stash command.

  5. Challenge

    Resolve a Merge Conflict

    Merge conflicts are a fact of life as a developer. To finish this lab, you will learn to resolve such a conflict.

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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