CodePipeline

• Continuous delivery
• Visual workflow
• Source: GitHub, CodeCommit, Amazon S3
• Build: CodeBuild, Jenkins, etc…
• Load Testing: 3rd par ty tools
• Deploy: AWS CodeDeploy, Beanstalk, CloudFormation, ECS…
• Made of stages:
  • Each stage can have sequential actions and / or parallel actions
  • Stages examples: Build, Test, Deploy, Load Test, etc…
  • Manual approval can be defined at any stage

CodePipeline Artifacts

• Each pipeline stage can create ”artifacts”
• Artifacts are Amazon S3 buckets that CodePipeline uses to store artifacts used by pipelines. When you first use the CodePipeline console in a region to create a pipeline, CodePipeline automatically generates this S3 bucket in the AWS region

Troubleshooting

• CodePipeline state changes happen in AWS CloudWatch Events, which can in return create SNS notifications.
• Ex: we can create events for failed pipelines • Ex: you can create events for cancelled stages
• If CodePipeline fails a stage, your pipeline stops and you can get information in the console
• AWS CloudTrail can be used to audit AWS API calls
• If Pipeline can’t perform an action, make sure the “IAM Service Role” attached does have enough permissions (IAM Policy)