Software Development Life Cycle Automation

Using CodePipeline Build and Deploy .Net Application

• To build a .Net application from source, use an MSBuild Windows Image in ECR
• MSBuild image is stored in ECR
• After build completes, resulting package is stored in S3 Build Artifacts folder
• CodeDeploy picks up the build package from S3 and sends it to Elastic Beanstalk for deployment
• CodeDeploy can invoke a Powershell script to run a schema update executable
  • CodeDeploy cannot run schema update sql scripts directly
  • CodeDeploy can run scripts to package the sql scripts as executable, then run that
• CodeDeploy can work directly with an MSBuild container image in ECR
• MSBuild is needed to compile .Net code

AWS CodeStar Roles

• Owner
• Contributor
• Viewer

CodePipeline and Jenkins

• Jenkins can be an Action Provider in CodePipeline
• Jenkins cannot be a Source Provider in CodeDeploy

CodeCommit Notifications

• CodeCommit Notifications can send email, etc when a PR is created or updated
• CodeCommit Triggers only fire when someone pushes to a repository
  • Triggers do not fire when a PR is created or updated

CodePipeline Artifact Stores

• When you create or edit a pipeline
  • an artifact store must be identified in the same region
  • you must have one bucket in each region where you run actions
• you can use the default AWS encryption key
  • OR you can set custom key rotation with your own Customer Managed Key (CMK)

AWS Serverless Application Model

• Canary Deployment Preference
  • traffic shifted in two increments
• Configure a post-traffic hook in a Lambda function
  • Lambda runs a sanity test
  • Lambda is invoked by CodeDeploy after traffic shift completes
• Definition of Deployment Preference for Canary Deployment:
  • type: Linear10PercentEvery10Minutes
  • defined in AWS SAM template
• If any CloudWatch alarms go into Alarm state
  • CodeDeploy flips Alias back to old version
  • CodeDeploy reports failure to CloudFormation