Creating a CI/CD pipeline on AWS
AWS provides an entire suite of developer tools that address the many requirements for hosting code, and building and deploying pipeline assets. To create a CI/CD pipeline on AWS, we will be making use of three primary services within the AWS developer toolchain. To further simplify the construction and automation of the pipeline, we will make use of two additional services within the AWS development suite.
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To learn more about the development tools available from AWS, you can reference the product page (https://aws.amazon.com/products/developer-tools/).
Let's review the important services that make up the CI/CD pipeline.
Using the AWS CI/CD toolchain
The three core components that make up a CI/CD pipeline are as follows:
- A component to store the various pipeline artifacts
- A component process to build the various pipeline assets
- A component to automate the pipeline execution
To facilitate creating these...