CodePipeline CheatSheet

• CodePipeline is a fully-managed CI/CD pipeline to setup automatic deployments
• Anatomy of CodeDeploy
  • Pipeline - encompasses all components
  • Stage-a step in the pipeline eg. Source> Build> Deploy
  • Action Group-groups several actions together
  • Action does something eg. deploy, build, invoke
  • Artifact a zip stored in S3 containing outputted files from an action to pass along to another stage of the pipleine
  • Stage Transitions - link to the next pipeline stage
• Use Cases:
  • Automatically deploy traditional application eg. Ruby on Rails
  • Automatically deploy serverless applications eg. Lambdas
  • Automatically deploy statically generated websites eg. JAMStacks