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Q: How deeply does Bootstrapping Microservices, Second Edition: With Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, and Terraform cover git?

Explains installation checks and repository cloning, but defers broader Git usage beyond obtaining code.

As explained in Bootstrapping Microservices, Second Edition: With Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, and Terraform

Git is a distributed version control system for tracking changes to files and coordinating software development.

Git is a version-control tool used to obtain working copies of example projects from GitHub. It supports day-to-day development alongside Node.js and VS Code. section 2.1 section 2.5.2

A practical Git setup follows three steps:

Install Git for your platform, or confirm that an existing installation is available. section 2.5.1
Verify the installation from a terminal with git --version. section 2.5.1
Clone a repository to place a working project in the current directory. section 2.5.2

Clone a working project

Run git clone https://github.com/bootstrapping-microservices-2nd-edition/chapter-2 to create a local chapter-2 directory containing the repository code. section 2.5.2

Table 2.1 Tools introduced in chapter 2 (view table figure)

Tool	Version	Purpose
Git	2.36.1	Version control is an essential part of day-to-day development; in this chapter, we use Git to get a copy of the chapter 2 code.
Node.js	18.17.1	We use Node.js to run our microservices.
Visual Studio Code (VS Code)	1.81.1	We use VS Code for editing our code and other assets.

Compare Git, Node.js, and VS Code with their stated versions and purposes. section 2.1

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GitOpsused by · GitOps is an operational approach that uses version-controlled declarative configuration as the source of truth and automation to apply or reconcile system state.
cryptographic hashuses · A cryptographic hash is a fixed-length digest computed from input data by a deterministic function designed to resist preimage, second-preimage, and collision attacks.
versioningkind of · The practice of identifying and managing successive revisions of files, data, models, interfaces, or other artifacts so changes can be tracked and earlier states recovered.
repositoryuses · A software repository is an organized storage location or collection of project files and related artifacts, often managed with version history and change tracking.
GitHubused by · GitHub is a web-based platform for hosting Git repositories and supporting collaborative software development.
.gitignoreconfigured by · .gitignore is a Git configuration file containing patterns that specify files and directories Git should exclude from version-control tracking.

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