Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) for AWS (DOP202)

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CI/CD at AWS

Overview

• AWS teams use their own CI/CD tools internally and then incorporate the learnings into the product features.
• The CI/CD lifecycle at AWS includes:
  • Source control
  • Building and testing
  • Deploying to production
  • Separating deployment from launch using feature flags
  • Continuous configuration
  • Monitoring and release management

Source Control

• AWS supports integration with self-hosted source providers (e.g., GitHub Enterprise, GitLab) through AWS CodeConnections.
• CodeBuild can now be used as a runner in other CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions and GitLab.

Building Applications

• Improvements to CodeBuild include:
  • Better VPC integration for Windows builds
  • Support for non-containerized builds
  • Support for building on macOS (with a 24-hour reservation requirement)
  • Ability to automatically retry builds on failure

Deploying to Production

• CodePipeline introduced stage-level conditions to enforce organizational standards and enable manual overrides.
• Customers can now skip stages in the pipeline to expedite emergency deployments.

Continuous Configuration

• Feature flags and operational flags allow teams to rapidly release new features and safely tune application behavior in production.
• Benefits include reduced blast radius, faster release velocity, and the ability to perform A/B testing.

Monitoring and Release Management

• AWS announced an integration between AWS AppConfig and DataDog to enable automatic rollback based on third-party monitoring alarms.