Paul Duvall

In this second and last part of this two-part series, I will demonstrate how to create a deployment pipeline in AWS CodePipeline to deploy changes to ECS images. In doing this, you’ll see not only how you can automate the creation of the infrastructure but also automating the deployment of the application and its infrastructure via Docker containers. This way you can commit infrastructure, application and deployment changes as code to your version-control repository and have these changes automatically deployed to production or production-like environments. Read more…

In this two-part series, you’ll learn how to provision, configure, and orchestrate the EC2 Container Service (ECS) applications into a deployment pipeline that’s capable of deploying new infrastructure and code changes when developers commit changes to a version-control repository so that team members can release new changes to users whenever they choose to do so: Continuous Delivery. Read more…

In Building Continuous Deployment on AWS with AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins and AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS describes how to manually configure CodePipeline to deploy an Elastic Beanstalk application. In this post, after describing how to create and connect to a new CodeCommit repository, I’ll explain how to fully automate the provisioning of all of the AWS resources Read more…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced the integration of AWS CodeCommit with AWS CodePipeline. This means you can now use CodeCommit as a version-control repository as part of your pipelines! AWS describes how to manually configure this integration at Simple Pipeline Walkthrough (AWS CodeCommit Repository). One of the biggest benefits of using CodeCommit is its seamless Read more…

When creating pipelines in AWS CodePipeline, you may want to make these pipelines available to other AWS accounts. When doing this, you’ll likely want to make these pipelines read only. A typical use case is that you want consistency for certain types of pipelines across an enterprise by providing a view of these pipelines to other Read more…

In this demonstration, you’ll perform a simple walkthrough of a two-stage pipeline using the CodePipeline console. This is based on AWS’ Simple Pipeline Walkthrough. A screencast is provided below. Using the AWS console is often the best way to get familiar with the concepts around any new AWS service. The console is also a good way to Read more…

I’ve been spending a lot of time with AWS CodePipeline over the past few months and I’m really excited about where it’s going in terms of what I consider to be a true Continuous Delivery service. What’s more, I can codify everything in CodePipeline itself using CloudFormation so that I can reliably modify and provision Read more…

Recently, AWS announced that they’ve added support for triggering AWS Lambda functions into AWS CodePipeline – AWS’ Continuous Delivery service. They also provided some great step-by-step documentation to describe the process for configuring a new stage in CodePipeline to run a Lambda function. In this article, I’ll describe how I codified the provisioning of all of Read more…

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been describing how I’m automating the provisioning of several of the AWS Code Services including CodePipeline and Custom CodePipeline Actions. This time, I’m describing a way of provisioning AWS CodeDeploy in CloudFormation. For now, I’m doing the automation against a generic application provided by AWS. I’ll apply it to our Read more…

A few weeks ago, I’d described the process I went through for provisioning CodePipeline using CloudFormation. As part of the provisioning of AWS CodePipeline, we were using the AWS CodePipeline CLI to provision a couple of custom actions. In my initial refactoring of the CodePipeline provisioning, I didn’t include the provisioning of the CodePipeline custom actions Read more…