Integrating CI/CD with AWS CodePipeline

Step 1: Take Github as Source Code. If you would like to use your GitHub accountVisit our GitHub repository containing the sample code at Github repo and then Fork a copy of the repository to your own GitHub account by choosing the Fork button in the upper-right corner.

Step 2: To Create Your Pipeline, Fristly go to CodePipeline service on aws console and choose create pipeline.Step 3: Type Pipeline name as “Demo_Pipeline”

Step 4: Click on next and Select GitHub (Version 2) for the Source provider.

Step 5: Choose Connect to GitHub.

Step 6: On connect to github, you will redirect to page to enter connection name , Enter any name such as “Deployment app” and click on authorize aws connector

Step 7: Click on install app and select github repo only and select our github repo and connect.

Step 8: Select repositrory name and branch name

Step 9: On Add build stage, choose Skip build stage.

Step 10: Activate your pipeline to deploy your code

Step 11: On deployment stage, choose your deployment provider as “ElasticBeanstalk” and select your app and environment name

Step 12: Click on next and create pipeline.

Step 13: After your pipeline is created, the pipeline status page appears and the pipeline automatically starts to run. You can view progress as well as success and failure messages as the pipeline performs each action.

Step 14: To verify your pipeline ran successfully, monitor the progress of the pipeline as it moves through each stage. The status of each stage will change from No executions yet to In progress, and then to either Succeeded or Failed. The pipeline should complete the first run within a few minutes. You can go to beanstalk environment and check endpoint .

Step 15: Now commit any new changes to index.html page on github repo and push to repo, that will be automatically deployed and get reflected to this environment url.

In the Rapid field of software development, implementation of Continuous Integration and Deployment ( CI/CD )  is essential for dependable and effective applications. This Article explores the streamlined process of setting up CI/CD using the AWS Code pipeline automating the build, test, and deployment phases. This user-friendly solution from Amazon web services(AWS) can enhance your development workflow rapidly and error-free releases.

What Is CI/CD On AWS?

When new code is submitted on one end and tested over a series of stages (source, build, test, staging, and production), and then published as production-ready code, CI/CD pipeline is used in that case.

Advantage of using CI/CD

• Frequent releases: Based on customer feedback or monitoring input, we can release the changes with CI/CD.
• Low risk: There won’t be any manual intervention and configuration setup, since its automated process.
• Increased Productivity: Increased developer productivity, as product will be released as different components.

AWS CI/CD Tools and Services

• AWS CodeCommit
• AWS CodeBuild
• AWS CodePipeline
• AWS CodeDeploy
• Amazon Elastic Container Registry
• AWS CodeStar

AWS CodeCommit

• AWS CodeCommit is a secure, highly scalable, fully managed source control service that hosts private Git repositories.
• No need for the user to know Git and manage their own source control system and worry about scaling up or down their infrastructure.Even about provisioning hardware, server, scaling or software which must be installed, configured or updated.
• Codecommit repositories are encrypted so its secured.
• The size of files or file types doesn’t bother file storage in Codecommit.

AWS CodeBuild

• AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed build service in the cloud. It compiles source code, runs unit tests, and produces artifacts that are ready to deploy.
• CodeBuild eliminates the need to provision, manage, and scale our own build servers.
• It is On demand which scales on demand to meet our build needs. We pay only for the number of build minutes we consume.
• CodeBuild provides preconfigured build environments for the most popular programming languages which points to our build script to start our first build.

AWS CodeDeploy

• AWS CodeDeploy is a service that automates software deployments that can deliver new features more quickly, avoid application deployment downtime, and handle the complexity of application updates with AWS CodeDeploy.
• We can easily roll out new features, prevent downtime when deploying our apps, and handle the complexity of updating our programs without many of the hazards involved with risky manual deployments.

Amazon Elastic Container Registry

• Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) is a fully managed container registry which offers high-performance hosting, so we can reliably deploy application images and artifacts anywhere.
• It provides a command-line interface (CLI) and APIs to manage repositories and integrated services, such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), which installs and manages the infrastructure for these containers.
• Difference between Amazon ECR and AWS ECS is that while ECR provides the repository that stores all code that has been written and packaged as a Docker image, the ECS takes these files and actively uses them in the deployment of applications.

AWS CodeStar

• AWS CodeStar project can be used to create and integrate Amazon services with the user’s project development toolchain. Based on the CodeStar project template chosen by the user, the toolchain will include source control, build, deployment, virtual servers or server less resources and other resources.
• It can be used to set up application development in the cloud and to manage the user’s application with the help of a single, centralized dashboard.

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