The code pipeline is about orchestrating everything together to achieve continuous deployment (CD). In CD, the entire software release process is fully automated, including build and deployment to the production release. Over some time with experiments, you can set up a mature CI/CD pipeline in which the path to the production launch is automated, thus enabling rapid deployment of features and immediate customer feedback. You can use cloud-native managed services such as AWS CodePipeline to orchestrate the overall code pipeline, or you can use the Jenkins server.
The code pipeline enables you to add actions to stages in your CI/CD pipeline. Each action can be associated with a provider that executes the action. The code pipeline action's categories and examples of providers are as follows:
- Source: Your application code needs to be stored in a central repository with version control called source code repositories. Some of the popular code repositories are AWS CodeCommit...