Transferring CodeCommit Repositories Between Regions

Recently, the CodeCommit service from AWS became available in Canada (ca-central-1 region). As I’m Canadian, I like to keep my hosting as close to home as possible, for myriad reasons, but mainly because each commit getting appended with “eh!”. The CodeCommit service from Amazon (AWS) hosts Git repositories. That’s about it. It’s no Github or Gitlab, but it does ensure at-rest encryption and access is limited to specific IAM users. If you just need private Git hosting for free (or on the cheap) without any WebUI help, CodeCommit is good. ...

June 29, 2017 · 2 min · 339 words · Scott Brown

Using SSH Keys with Multiple BitBucket Accounts

I was using BitBucket the other day for a new client, but I wasn’t able to use my standard BitBucket account (business reasons). I attempted to add my standard SSH key (id_rsa) to the new BitBucket account but SSH keys must be unique to the entire BitBucket system. I don’t understand the reason for this uniqueness but there is a way around it using a rarely used SSH technique. First you need to generate a new SSH key. You will name it something different than the default (id_rsa) because it will be used exclusively for the new BitBucket account. ...

July 18, 2014 · 2 min · 306 words · Scott Brown