Effective DevOps with AWS

Adding our template to a source control system

Now that we have tested our template and know it's working, we are going to commit it to our source control system. This will allow us to keep track of changes and gives the ability to treat our infrastructure code up to the same standard as our application code. (There is more on that in Chapter 4, Adding Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.)

To do that, we will rely on Git. AWS has a service called AWS CodeCommit (http://amzn.to/2tKUj0n), which lets you manage Git repositories easily; however, because this service is a lot less popular than GitHub (https://github.com), we will use the latter instead. If you don't have an account for GitHub yet, start by signing up for the service ...