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.

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