Cloudformation Boilerplate For Continuous Deployments with CodePipeline/CodeBuild

This repo creates a fully managed AWS CodePipeline that automatically builds and deploys everytime code is committed to GitHub.

Here is an example application using this template: https://github.com/MatthewSilverstein/serverless-java

Pipeline stages

Source (GitHub)

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Build (CodeBuild)

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Deploy Alpha (CodeBuild)

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Integration Test Alpha (CodeBuild)

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Deploy Beta (CodeBuild)

Setting up the pipeline

1. Install awscli and setup aws account
2. Create a GitHub repository
3. Get an access key for GitHub repository with privilleges: [admin:repo_hook, repo]
4. In commandline:

aws cloudformation deploy --template-file cloudformation-pipeline.yaml --stack-name <stack-name> --capabilities CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM --parameter-overrides \
 GitHubUser=<username> \
 Repo=<repo> \
 Branch=<branch> \
 GitHubToken=<github access token>

Configuring build, deployments, and tests

By default, there are three buildspec files used by this pipeline:

1. buildspec-build.yml: This is used by the Build phase of the pipeline
2. buildspec-deploy.yml: This is used by the Deployment phases of the pipeline
3. buildspec-integration-tests.yml: This is used by the Integration Test phase