Starting a build

When we start a build, the CodeBuild service is responsible for preparing the required infrastructure based on the configuration and environment type we specified during the build project creation. Once the build environment is ready, CodeBuild will execute the instructions we provided in the buildspec.yml file in different stages and publish the artifacts and required reports. To start the build process for the packt-aws-code-pipeline CodeBuild project we created earlier in this chapter, perform the following steps:

1. Click on the Build projects in the left panel of CodeBuild and then select the packt-aws-code-pipeline project. Click on the Start build button and select Start now:

Figure 8.19 – packt-aws-code-pipeline start build process

2. Once you click on the Start now button, CodeBuild will start the build execution and take you to the build status page as shown in the following screenshot. You can see that a unique...