The document provides an overview of AWS CI/CD services including AWS CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline, which facilitate the software release phases of source code management, building, testing, and deployment. It details the benefits of using these services for infrastructure rollouts and web application deployment, alongside debugging, rollback, and metrics for evaluating DevOps performance. Additionally, it outlines pricing for the AWS services and includes a use case example for implementing an infrastructure as code (IaC) using CloudFormation.

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CI CD using AWS Developer Tools
Bhuvaneswari Subramani | 10th Aug 2019

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Bhuvaneswari Subramani (Bhuvana)
Director, Engineering Operations, Infor
Currently working on Cloud Computing, DevOps &, Performance QA
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Agenda
• AWS CI CD Services Overview
• Use case leveraging AWS CI CD Services
• Infrastructure Rollouts + WebApp Deployment
• buildspec, appspec
• Debugging Build & Deployment
• Rollback Deployments
• Metrics to gauge DevOps

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AWS CI CD Services - Overview

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Software Release Phases
Source Build Test Deploy
Testing
• Integration Test
• UI Test
• Load Test
• Penetration Tests
Deployment
Deployment to Prod
Environments
Code Management
• Check-in source code
• Peer review new code
• Version Control
• Multi-enterprise
Package Creation
• Compile Code
• Run Unit Tests
• Create Container
Images
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery

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Software Release Phases vs
AWS CI CD Services
Source Build Test Deploy
AWS CodeCommit AWS CodeBuild Third Party Tooling AWS CodeDeploy
AWS
CodePipeline

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Plight of Self Managed
Source Control Repo

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AWS Code Commit
• Secure, Scalable, and managed Git Source control
• Use Standard git tools
• Scalability, availability and durability of Amazon S3 &
Amazon Dynamo DB
• No repo size limit
• Post commit hooks to call out to SNS / Lambda

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Visualizer Compare Pull Request
AWS Code Commit

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When there is no
CI CD??

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AWS Code Build
• Fully managed build service that compiles source code, run
tests, and produces software packages
• Scales continuously and processes multiple builds
• You can provide custom build environments suited to your
needs via Docker images
• Only pay by the minute for the compute resources you use
• Launched with Services like CodePipeline or Jenkins

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AWS Code Build Project
Where to get the
source code?
Which build
environment to use?
Where to store the
artifact?
Where to store the
build logs?

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AWS Code Deploy
• Automates code deployments to EC2 / On-prem
• Handles the complexity of updating your applications
• Minimal deployment downtime
• Rollback automatically, if failure detected
• Supports varied languages and operating systems
• Integrates with third-party tools like Jenkins

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Revision 1
Application
Revision 2
Revision 3
Revision n
Instance 1
Deployment Group
Instance 2
Instance 3
Instance n
Deployments
Deploy
Config
appspe
c.yml
In-place
deployment
AWS Code Deploy Components

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Revision 1
Application
Revision 2
Revision 3
Revision n
Instance 1
Deployment Group
Instance 2
Instance 3
Instance n
Deployments
Deploy
Config
appspe
c.yml
In-place
deployment
AWS Code Deploy Components
What to
deploy?
Where to
deploy?
How to
deploy?

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AWS CodePipeline
• Continuous delivery service for fast and reliable application
updates
• Model and visualize your software release process
• Builds, tests and deploys your code on every commit
• Integrates with third-party tools

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Action Action
Stage
Action Action
Stage
Action
Transition
AWS CodePipeline

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Quick look @ pricing*
• AWS CodeCommit: Anyone with an AWS account can get started with AWS
CodeCommit for free. Your account gets 5 active users per month for free (within
limits), after which you pay $1 per additional active user per month.
• AWS CodeBuild: Only pay by minute for the compute resources you use.
• AWS CodeDeploy: There is no additional charge for code deployments to Amazon EC2
instances through AWS CodeDeploy. You pay $0.02 per on-premises instance update
using AWS CodeDeploy.
• AWS CodePipeline: You pay only for what you use. AWS CodePipeline costs $1 per
active pipeline* per month. To encourage experimentation, pipelines are free for the
first 30 days after creation.
* Pricing as on Aug 2019

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Infrastructure Rollouts &
Web Application Deployments
AWS CD CD Workflow

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Use Case
• IaC using Cloud Formation Template
• Create an EC2 Instance
• Install CodeDeploy agent through UserData
• Add specific tag `Name = WebApp`
• Deploy Web Application
• Install Tomcat & deploy WebApp through instructions from appspec.yml

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Source Build Deploy

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Infrastructure Rollout +
Web App Deployment

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buildspec.yml & appspec.yml files

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buildspec.yml
buildspec.yml from Web Application Deployments

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buildspec.yml from Web Application Deployments
buildspec.yml
Create & store an artifact in S3

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appspec.yml
appspec.yml from Web Application Deployments

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appspec.yml
appspec.yml from Web Application Deployments
Files to be copied to the
instance during deployment’s
install

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Debugging, Rollback & Metrics

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Debugging Builds
• Enable Logging in CloudWatch / S3

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Debugging Builds
• Enable Logging in CloudWatch / S3
• Local Build Support for AWS CodeBuild
• Get the AWS CodeBuild docker image file from AWS
Github
• Build the CodeBuild image locally
• Setup CodeBuild local Agent
• Use the local agent to build your project

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Debugging Deployments
• CodeDeploy agent generates agent, updater & deployment logs
• Send them to CloudWatch for debugging
• CodeDeploy agent logs [EC2/On-prem only]
• /var/log/aws/codedeploy-agent/codedeploy-agent.log

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Debugging Deployments
• CodeDeploy agent generates agent, updater & deployment logs
• Send them to CloudWatch for debugging
• CodeDeploy agent logs [EC2/On-prem only]
• /var/log/aws/codedeploy-agent/codedeploy-agent.log
• CodeDeploy deployment logs
• /opt/codedeploy-agent/deployment-root/deployment-logs/
• CodeDeploy updater logs
• /tmp/codedeploy-agent.update.log

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Rollback Deployments
• Rollback in AWS is actually ====>
• Configure re-deploy by enabling
• Code deploy -> Rollbacks >
• Code deploy -> ‘Automatic Rollbacks’
• Deployment Configuration to enable rollback based on healthy instances

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Metrics to gauge DevOps
• Rapid Delivery with Increased Efficiency
• Increased Feature releases with reduced TTM
• Quicker feedback (system/user) to teams & stake holders
• Greater % of defects detected in testing (Unit & SIT Cycles)
• Ticket / Incidents volume reduction in PreProd & Prod
• High Availability
• Elastic & Scalable Infrastructure

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