AWS CodePipeline Add Github Source from CloudFormation Template - amazon-web-services

Question

I'm working off of the Cloudformation stack from this tutorial:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/continuous-deployment-for-serverless-applications/
It creates a pipeline with a CodeCommit repository as a source. I'd like to switch this to a Github repository. Here's the code that is defining this resource:
Pipeline:
Type: AWS::CodePipeline::Pipeline
Properties:
ArtifactStore:
Location: !Ref BuildArtifactsBucket
Type: S3
Name: !Sub ${ServiceName}_pipeline
RoleArn: !GetAtt PipelineExecutionRole.Arn
Stages:
- Name: Source
Actions:
- Name: CodeCommitRepo
ActionTypeId:
Category: Source
Owner: AWS
Provider: CodeCommit
Version: 1
Configuration:
RepositoryName: !Sub '${ServiceName}_repo'
BranchName: master
OutputArtifacts:
- Name: SourceZip
RunOrder: 1
How is GitHub defined as a resource and how is the authentication handled for a private repository?

Answer 1

For github you need to replace provider with github for example
Pipeline:
Type: AWS::CodePipeline::Pipeline
Properties:
ArtifactStore:
Location: !Ref BuildArtifactsBucket
Type: S3
Name: !Sub ${ServiceName}_pipeline
RoleArn: !GetAtt PipelineExecutionRole.Arn
Stages:
- Name: Source
Actions:
- Name: GithubRepo
ActionTypeId:
Category: Source
Owner: ThirdParty
Provider: GitHub
Version: 1
Configuration:
"Owner": "MyGitHubAccountName",
"Repo": "MyGitHubRepositoryName",
"PollForSourceChanges": "false",
"Branch": "master",
"OAuthToken": "****"
OutputArtifacts:
- Name: SourceZip
RunOrder: 1
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