Configuring GitHub

Though we can configure any Git repo, typically, we will use GitHub to set it up. We will need to set up a valid key to access the Git repo.

The easiest way to do this is to allow Flux to generate its own key, and add it to the GitHub repo. But to be able to do so, we need to create our own GitHub repo.

Forking the GitHub repo

The first step in configuring the repo is to fork it. Let's look at the following steps for more details:

1. Go to the page of the GitHub repo for the code (https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Docker-for-Microservices-with-Python/) and click in Fork on the top-right corner to generate your own copy.
2. Once you have your own copy, it will have a URL similar to the following...