CodeCommit

• Access to CodeCommit

  • HTTPS Git Credentials (Generate username and pwd)

  • SSH Keys (Upload public ssh keys)

CodeBuild

• Build spec file can be only YAML based file buildspec.yml (Cannot have json based build spec file) (for codedeploy you can have either appspec.yml or appspec.json)

CodePipeline

• Create Pipelines with multiple stages

  • Build, Test, Release, Deploy

CodeDeploy

• Can deploy software packages using an archive that has been uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket

• Can deploy application content from S3, GitHub, or Bitbucket

• Can be used for deployment activities on EC2, On-Prem, Lambda or ECS

• CodeDeploy agent must be installed (EC2 and On-prem ONLY) first to use CodeDeploy

• CodeDeploy agent is not required for Amazon ECS or AWS Lambda

• CodeDeploy agent communicates outbound using HTTPS over port 443

• Deployment types

  • In-place deployment : on each instance in the deployment group

• Applicable to EC2 and On-Prem ONLY , CANNOT be used on ECS or Lambda

1. Application stopped

2. Latest app is installed

3. New version of the app is started and validated

• Blue/green deployment :

• Applicable to EC2 , ECS, and Lambda, CANNOT be used on ON-Prem

• EC2

  • Instances in original deployment group gets replaced with new group of EC2 instances

• ECS

  • Traffic is shifted from original tasks set to new task set

  • Load balancer are used to reroute traffic

• Lambda

  • Traffic is shifted from original lambda to newer version of lambda

• When roll back happens CodeDeploy first updates the failed EC2 instances

CodeStar

• Quickly setup version control, build and deployment with project dashboard – answer is CodeStar

• Provides the tools you need to quickly develop, build, and deploy applications on AWS

• Provides project dashboard to centrally monitor application activity and manage day-to-day development tasks

• Integrates with Atlassian JIRA, a third-party issue tracking and project management tool