App deployment to EC2 instances

For the CodeDeploy service to deploy the aws-code-pipeline.zip file, we need to create an application in the CodeDeploy console to initiate deployment. To create a CodeDeploy application, follow the steps shown as follows:

1. Log in to the AWS console and under the CodeDeploy service, click on the Getting started link in the left panel. Click on the Create application button to start creating a CodeDeploy application:

Figure 9.24 – CodeDeploy getting started

2. Provide an application name and select the Compute platform type. In this case, we are going to deploy this application to the EC2 instances, so select EC2/On-premises and click the Create application button:

Figure 9.25 – CodeDeploy creates a new application

3. The CodeDeploy application is successfully created; now we need to create the deployment group to which we can target the deployment. As we discussed...