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Connecting A github Repo with AWS

Evan Selunani
8 min readOct 29, 2024

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Ever wondered if ambition and greed are 2 faces of the same coin? It’s a big question, but maybe one to think over when you have time. Ask yourself: is the drive to achieve more, learn more, or create more a form of ambition or greed? Reflect on this, and you might discover where you stand on the spectrum.

Today, let’s jump into connecting our GitHub repository with AWS! This is the second project in our DevOps Simple Application in the Cloud series. Here, we’ll set up Git and GitHub to store and track our web app’s source code. By the end, you’ll know how to:

1. Set up Git and GitHub
2. Link your web app project to your GitHub repository
3. Make updates to your project files and watch those changes appear in GitHub

Along the way, we’ll cover a few essential terms:

  1. Git: A version control system that allows developers to track changes in their code, collaborate with others, and manage different versions of their projects efficiently.
  2. GitHub: A web-based platform that uses Git for version control, providing a place to store, share, and collaborate on code repositories. It offers features such as issue tracking, pull requests, and code review.
  3. Repository: A structured storage space within Git (or on platforms like GitHub) that contains all the files, history, and version control information for a particular project. Repositories can be public or private, allowing for different…

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Evan Selunani
Evan Selunani

Written by Evan Selunani

Transforming the world, one keystroke at a time.| Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner.

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