AWS CodeDeploy and Its Features
Explore how AWS CodeDeploy automates software deployments to Amazon EC2, Lambda, ECS, and on-premises servers. Understand its key features like platform agnostic configuration, integration with AWS and third-party tools, deployment strategies for high availability, notifications for alerts, and deployment monitoring. This lesson helps you grasp deploying applications efficiently and minimizing downtime using AWS CodeDeploy.
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Once the application source code is developed and tested, it’s time to deploy it. Commonly, the operations team will block a time window, bring down the application servers, install the new tested code, and restart them. Today, many companies have hybrid architectures where the applications must be deployed in the cloud and on-premises. Deploying all these servers manually in a test or production environment is impossible. On top of deployment, imagine maintaining all these servers and keeping them up to date with the latest security patches. What if there was a bug in the deployed software, and the deployment needs to be reverted? The manual rollback process is highly error-prone and time-consuming.
The value proposition of AWS CodeDeploy
AWS CodeDeploy was designed to make the above-mentioned task easier.
AWS CodeDeploy is a fully managed deployment service, which means AWS will take the responsibility of keeping the ...