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Source Control Your AWS CloudFormation Templates With GitHub

Sarah Lean
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4 min readMay 19, 2022
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Source control is the practice of tracking and managing changes to your code. This could be software code or infrastructure as code (IaC).

Source control in the development side of IT has been common practice for a long time. But it is something that is still new or uncommon within the operations teams in IT.

I can hold my hand up and say a lot of the scripts or deployment templates I wrote used to live in folders marked version 1, old version, new version, etc. Or even in draft emails in my email account. What a crazy way to work, right?

Thanks to the invention and my discovery of GitHub, I have become better at writing and storing scripts (hopefully!). Now everything is publicly on display.

Use GitHub for Your AWS CloudFormation Source Control

I’ve recently been learning and creating AWS CloudFormation templates and have created a GitHub repository to help store my templates, so I can work on them and also share them with others.

You can find my work here: https://github.com/weeyin83/AWSCloudFormationSamples

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Sarah Lean
Sarah Lean

Written by Sarah Lean

Community Speaker — Lifelong Learner — Founder of the Glasgow Azure User Group

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