Historic Notes

• These notes were originally written 2018

Before Accessing the Code

• Visit AWS Management Console: https://829851215903.signin.aws.amazon.com/console
• If not already done, enter your credentials
• If you don’t have git installed, follow Step 2 in this guide: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/codecommit/latest/userguide/setting-up-gc.html
• Set up your git credentials: Follow Step 3 in this guide: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/codecommit/latest/userguide/setting-up-gc.html
• Move onto “Accessing the Code” below.

Accessing the Code

• (first see “before accessing the code”, above)
• Visit AWS Management Console: https://829851215903.signin.aws.amazon.com/console
• If not already done, enter your credentials
• Expand the All Services section at the top
• Select CodeCommit (under Developer Tools, in the middle)
• Make sure you select the right region in AWS: top right: EU (Ireland)
• Now you should see a list of repos (see Repo Descriptions below)
• Click on these one by one. For each one:
  • Open Terminal (Mac), or command line in Windows (Windows key + X
    • A)
  • Navigate to folder where you want code to live
  • Back in CodeCommit, in your repo, click on Connect (top right)
  • For ssh: see below
  • For https (not recommended):
    • In the pop-up dialog towards the bottom there is a box with a line of text starting git clone – copy this into your terminal
  • You will be prompted to enter user name + pw: use the ones you created for your git credentials above.
    • You might not have to repeat this step for every repo

Ssh Access

• In Terminal:
  • Cd .ssh (in home folder)
  • Vi [your-git-name]-github.pub
  • Copy all contents
• In AWS:
  • Go to IAM
  • Go to Users – select your name
  • Go to SecurityCredentials tab
  • Click Upload SSH Public key
  • Paste contents of public key
  • Go to CodeCommit and select any code base
  • Click Connect
  • Select the ssh radio button (under connection type)
  • Copy the text in the top code box (starts “Host git-codecommit.*.amazonaws.com”)
• In file system:
  • In the .ssh folder (probably in your home folder), there is a file called config
  • If you don’t have this file, create it in a text editor (note that it has no file extension)
  • Paste the text just copied from the Connect section
  • Edit the following sections:
    • Your-IAM-SSH-Key-ID-Here = SSH Key ID as displayed in IAM | Security credentials (see above)
    • Your-Private-Key-File-Name-Here = the private key file which matches the .pub file mentioned above
      • In your .ssh folder, you will see two files, with the same name, one has a .pub extension and one doesn’t
  • Save the config file
• Now you can clone any repo by (eg) copying the git clone line from the Connect section in Code Commit