Managing automation content in a Git server

In this section, you will learn how to create a GitHub (github.com) account, create, install, and configure the repositories, and keep Ansible automation content inside the repositories.

Setting up a GitHub account

If you already have a GitHub personal or enterprise account, then you can skip the account creation steps:

1. Open your web browser and go to github.com, then click the Signup button in the top-right corner of the page.
2. Enter your email address and a password and username on the next screen, as shown in Figure 4.4. GitHub will tell you whether the username is available as usernames in GitHub must be unique:

Figure 4.4 – Creating a GitHub account

3. Click Continue and finish the simple puzzle (CAPTCHA) on the next screen to verify your identity. Once done, create your account.
4. On the next screen, GitHub will ask you for the one-time code that you will receive on your registered...