Speakers: Matt Hansen Justin Elliott
Level: Intermediate, Lecture
Excerpt: Come to this session to get a kickstart on the basics of Git, how to use it in your environment and collaborate with the MacAdmins community. Git is not just for programmers – it’s one of the essential tools for any systems admin that wants to track changes in scripts, server configs, network configuration files, and for collaborating with others.
Description: Come to this session to get a kickstart on the basics of Git, how to use it in your environment and collaborate with the MacAdmins community. Git is not just for programmers – it’s one of the essential tools for any systems admin that wants to track changes in scripts, server configs, network configuration files, and for collaborating with others.
The use of Git has gained huge and rapid adoption by the MacAdmin community because it’s easy to get started and collaborate with others on open source projects. In addition to learning the basics we will cover how to incorporate Git into your own workflows with tools and services like GitHub, AutoPkg, Munki and continuous integration services (Jenkins, GitLab at Penn State).
About the speakers
Matt Hansen – Systems Administrator – Penn State University (Twitter: hansen_m)
Justin Elliott – IT Mananger – Penn State University (Twitter: @justindelliott)
Justin is one of the founding members of MacEnterprise.org and the MacAdmins Conference at Penn State University. He has enjoyed working on Macs and UNIX for over 20 years, as a systems admin and IT Manager. He finished his master’s degree in computer science in 1999 because he loved the torture and compilers. He is the IT Manager of the Mac and Linux Team for the Classroom and Lab Computing department in ITS at Penn State University. He is also a software developer and recovering systems admin. He created and continues to develop “Blast Image Config,” a freeware OS X system image restore utility which is used to build and configure all of the 700+ student computing lab Macs at Penn State University.