AWS CodePipeline

Overview

• CI/CD service

Definitions

• Continous Integration
  
  • Integrate work frequently
  • Automated building and testing
• Continous Delivery
  
  • Automated release process 
  • Release frequently (at extreme on every commit)
  • Typically manual sign-off required before pushing to Production
• Continous Deployment
  • Like Continous Delivery but no sign-off for Production
  • Requires very reliable automated testing

Model

• Pipeline
• pipeline
• Revision
• pipeline
• Stage Transition
• • On completion pipelines transitions to the next stage
  • Transition can be disabled (this is how you disable a stage)
• Artifact - object
• • Source, jar, result of a build, etc.

Stage

• Pipeline contains stages (at least 2)
• Unique name in the workflow
• Processes only one revision at a time
• • Revisions processed by previous stage are batched
• Contains sequence of actions (1+)
• • All must complete OK for the Stage to be completed
• Examples
• deployments

Action

• Element of a Stage
• May run sequentially or in parallel
• May have input artifact
• May have output artifact (unique name)
  • Must match input artifact of the next action
• Examples
• • Source Action (must be the first one)
  • Build Action
  • Deploy Action

Custom Action

• Type
• • Build
  • Deploy
  • Test
  • Invoke function
• Similar to SWF
• Pipeline

Providers

• Source Provider
• code, e.g.
• Deployment Provider
• • CodeDeploy
  • EB
• Build And Test Providers
• • CodeBuild, Jenkins, CloudBees (see Integrations)

Integrations

• AWS
• • S3
  • CloudTrail
  • Code*
  • ElasticBeanstalk
  • KMS
• Third Party
• • GitHub
  • Jenkins (plugin)
  • Many others

References

• http://www.stelligent.com/build/aws-codepipeline-released-and-there-was-much-rejoicing/