AWS Developer Tools - CI CD LAB Series

Welcome to the home for CI CD Lab Series using AWS Developer Tools!

When Vijaya Nirmala.G & myself planned to co-present a talk on CI CD Lab using AWS Developer Tools @ 2nd Edition of AWS Community Day Bengaluru 2018 organized by AWS User Group Bengaluru,  many use cases around AWS Developer Tools / Code Services flashed, wondering what to talk, where to start & when to stop.

Since it sounded little difficult to put the vast knowledge within the short duration, decided to coherently sketch them as a blog with hands-on lab and then extract the essence of it with the fresh experience to present it Cloud enthusiasts.

Introduction

• Software Release Phases vs AWS CI CD Services
• AWS CI CD Services - Bird's eye view

Here you go with the well designed Lab Series!

We will be focusing on three most important streams where AWS CI CD is essential and constructed as 3 workflows in this 13 LAB Series

1. Web Application Deployments
2. Infrastructure Rollouts
3. Serverless Application Deployments 

What will I learn in this Lab Series ?

You will learn the following that are bare minimum requirement for this Lab Series

• Creating IAM Group by attaching existing policies and defining in-line policies
• Create IAM User & Service Role
• Create S3 Bucket
• Create a repo in AWS CodeCommit, add source & commit the changeset
• Build Sample Java Application using AWS CodeBuild, taking source from CodeCommit
• Create Security Group, Instance Profile Role, EC2 Instance from console
• Create CodeDeploy to install pre-requisites & deploy Java Web Application
• Create CodeDeploy to spin-up EC2 instance & deploy Java Web Application
• Create & Execute CloudFormation template to create lambda function
• Create AWS CodePipeline to glue AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy 
• Integrating Manual Approval with AWS CodePipeline

Disclaimer: 

• Note that the entire AWS Developer Tools - CI CD LAB have been created validated both by myself & Vijaya Nirmala.G.  Feel free to add comments, if you find any issues.
• Though this LAB material will cover the AWS resources very well within your monthly free limits, ensure to tear down the unused resources to avoid surprises.
• AWS CodeCommit: Anyone with an AWS account can get started with AWS CodeCommit for free. Your account gets 5 active users per month for free (within limits), after which you pay $1 per additional active user per month. There are no upfront fees or commitments.
• AWS CodeBuild: Only pay by minute for the compute resources you use
• AWS CodeDeploy: There is no additional charge for code deployments to Amazon EC2 instances through AWS CodeDeploy. You pay $0.02 per on-premises instance update using AWS CodeDeploy.
• AWS CodePipeline: You pay only for what you use. AWS CodePipeline costs $1 per active pipeline* per month. To encourage experimentation, pipelines are free for the first 30 days after creation.

Here is the Reference Link to the resources used in this Lab Series

Happy to share the stage with Nirmala!
Have been a wonderful learning throughout the journey...