Creating a Fork

You should work on updates and new features on your own fork of the Well-Architected Labs repository , make the edits and then submit a Pull Request to be merged back into production. A local fork will be your local copy of the Well-Architected Labs repository.

Creating a Fork

  1. Go to the production Well-Architected Labs repository
  2. On the right side of the page, click on the Fork icon Images/fork.png
  3. Select your GitHub account to Fork to Images/fork2.png
  4. You will then have a remote repository of /aws-well-architected-labs Images/directory.png This is effectively your own version of the labs, stored on GitHub

Create a local repository from the Fork

You will create a local copy of the Fork to work on, and make the required edits, his allows you to work locally and view the changes.

  1. Create a directory on your PC to hold the local repository
  2. Change to that directory or navigate to that directory and right click and select Git Bash Here Images/git.png
  3. Replace the repository name (username)/aws-well-architected-labs below with your repository name, and clone it: git clone git@github.com:(username)/aws-well-architected-labs.git
  • It will download the repository Images/git2.png
  • You now have your local copy setup & have your own GitHub repository to push to

Serve Hugo

After creating your local Fork verify locally

  • Navigate back to the aws-well-architected-labs parent folder

  • Serve the content locally:

     hugo serve -D

  • Open a browser and navigate to http://localhost:1313/

Refresh your local Fork from the remote

See the GitHub docs