GitHub Authentication for AWS CodePipeline

External

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/latest/userguide/GitHub-authentication.html

Internal

• AWS CodePipeline Concepts
• GitHub Procedures

Overview

This article describes how to configure the Source stage of an AWS CodePipeline to access a GitHub repository.

Procedure

Create a Personal Access Token

Use the procedure described here:

Create a GitHub Personal Access Token

Update the Pipeline

CloudFormation

Resources:
  MyPipeline:
    Type: AWS::CodePipeline::Pipeline
    Properties:
      Stages:
        - Name: Source
          Actions:
          - Name: 'pull-from-github'
            ActionTypeId:
              Category: Source
              Owner: ThirdParty
              Version: '1'
              Provider: GitHub
            Configuration:
              Owner: 'novaordis-llc'
              Repo: https://github.com/something
              Branch: master
              OAuthToken: <use the personal access token here>

AWS CLI

TODO, not tested.

aws codepipeline get-pipeline --name MyPipeline > pipeline.json

Update pipeline.json, as described above, then

aws codepipeline update-pipeline --cli-input-json file://pipeline.json

Troubleshooting

"PermissionError: Could not access the GitHub repository

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/latest/userguide/troubleshooting.html#troubleshooting-gs2