Integrating git with AWS amplify

In my recent assignment, we as a team finalised AWS amplify to use as a scalable devops tool.

It took a lot for us a team to get ourself familiar with AWS Amplify, but as the world is evolving we tried our best to put the best of the tools we can add in our project.

Version control

git is an open source distributed version control system. It comes with an amazing feature of branches.

You can use it for code review & adding tags for releases to. There are lot of other features it provides , you just need to understand what problem you are solving & is its best approach to do it.

AWS Amplify

AWS amplify is a paid service by amazon. There are lot of amazing features which amplify provides like creating backend & frontend in the server itself. It works on a concept of docker , where it create docker image of the environment & hence gives the user a flexibility to work on it & scale as they want.

As we develop a piece of code be it a QA or development, we need both a version control system & a source where we can build the application.

1. Version control– to make code available for the whole team, i.e. collaboration.

2. Build tool– to deploy the code on it, & thus getting an idea who does it work.

Prerequisite

You need to have a git repository like this

& account on AWS amplify

Connecting to the git repo from AWS Amplify

1. Click on the connect app

1. Click on git hub

1. Select the name of the repository which you want to add

1. Click on next. Once the repository will be added you can fetch the code from git.

Just be sure this will not run your code on AWS Amplify, as you need to create backend & frontend as well before running the code. Point to remember

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