CI/CD Pipelines

We can automate the build, test, and deployment processes on the AWS Cloud using CI/CD pipelines and AWS services like CodePipeline, CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy. These pipelines are crucial for accelerating development cycles, improving code quality, and ensuring faster, more reliable software releases.

Let’s first explore the concept of CI/CD pipelines and its different stages.

What is a CI/CD pipeline?

A Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (or Continuous Delivery) pipeline, or CI/CD pipeline for short, is a series of automated steps that help build, test, and deploy any code changes. These steps are triggered sequentially, like a pipeline, with the very first step being the commitance of those code changes in a source repositorySource code simply refers to the collection of files and directories that make up the codebase of a software application.. In this lesson, we’ll primarily focus on the AWS CodePipeline, CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy services to create CI/CD pipelines.

AWS CodeCommit

AWS CodeCommit is a fully managed AWS service that allows teams of developers to securely store, track, and manage changes to their code repositories. CodeCommit is an AWS solution for a version control system (VCS)Version control systems (VCS), or source control systems, are software tools developers use to track and manage periodic changes to a software application’s code.. It also makes it easier for them to collaborate efficiently and develop the source code of their application software.

CodeCommit is one of the best choices for hosting private Git repositoriesA Git repository is a centralized storage location where developers can use the Git version control system to manage and track changes in their source code.. This is because the CodeCommit service already supports several of the standard Git functionalities, and it’s ...