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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.