AWS CodeStar is a service that allows users to easily set up continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines on AWS. It provides project templates for common configurations, integrates with source control via AWS CodeCommit and issue tracking with JIRA. The pipelines are built using services like CodeBuild, CodeDeploy and CodePipeline. CodeStar also provides a centralized dashboard to monitor builds, deployments and issues. It aims to simplify and accelerate the DevOps process on AWS.

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Tara E. Walker
Sr. Technical Evangelist
Amazon Web Services
@taraw
05.04.18
How to Build a CI/CD pipeline with
AWS CodeStar
Getting started down your Continuous Integration and
Continuous Delivery journey

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Agenda
What is DevOps, Continuous Integration and Delivery?
Introducing AWS CodeStar
AWS CodeStar and AWS Code Services
AWS CodeStar Issue Tracking with JIRA
Summary

3. What is DevOps?
Union of software development and operations
Migration of Agile continuous development into continuous
integration and continuous delivery
DevOps Model
• No Silos – Puts emphasis on communication, collaboration, and
cohesion between disciplines
• Best practices for change, configuration, and deployment
automation
• Deliver apps/services at faster pace
• High speed product updates
Delivery Pipeline
Feedback LoopCOMPANY CUSTOMERS

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DevOps consists of culture, practices, & tools
• Microservices based
architecture
• CI/CD – Continuous
integration and
continuous delivery
• Infrastructure as
code
• Monitoring and
logging
• Help you automate
the major DevOps
phases to support
faster, smaller
releases
• Source
• Build
• Test
• Deploy
• Monitor
• Dev & ops coming
together
 No more “silos”
• Shared responsibility
• Ownership
• Visibility and
communication
Culture Practices Tools

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Why does DevOps matter?
5xLower change
failure rate
440xFaster from commit
to deploy
46xMore frequent
deployments
44%More time spent on
new features and
code
Source: Puppet 2017 State of DevOps Report

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Continuous Integration (CI) is…
DevOps software development practice
Refers to Build or Integration stage of the software release
process
Key Activities
 Code changes merged into a central repository
 Automated builds and tests are run
Goals
 Find and address bugs quickly
 Improve software quality
 Reduce time to release new software updates

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Continuous Delivery (CD) is…
DevOps software development practice that refers to
Deployment stage of the software release process
Key Activities
 Deployment of all code changes to a testing and/or a
production environment
 Approval of updates to production from test stages
Goals
 Verify application updates across multiple dimensions
before deployment
 Automate entire software release process
 Pre-emptively discover deployment issues

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• Integration
tests with
other systems
• Load testing
• UI tests
• Penetration
testing
Source Build Test Deploy Monitor
Five Major Phases of DevOps: Release & Monitor
• Check-in
source code
such as .js,
.java, .cs files.
• Peer review
new code
• Compile code
• Unit tests
• Style checkers
• Code metrics
• Create
container
images
• Deployment
to production
environments
• Monitor code
in production
to quickly
detect
unusual
activity or
errors

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General Best Practices of Amazon Developers
CI/CD is a MUST!
Everything that is code (application, infrastructure,
documentation) goes into a repository
Start with continuous delivery (“gated” promotion)
and build up to continuous deployment once
evidence of a high level of excellence in testing is clear
Deploy to canaries, test, deploy to an AZ, test, deploy
to a Region, test

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AWS Code Services
AWS Continuous Integration & Delivery
AWS CodePipeline AWS CodeCommit AWS CodeBuildAWS CodeDeployAWS CodeStar

11. Introducing AWS CodeStar
Develop on AWS in minutes:
Easily set up your entire development environment and
programming tools for coding, building, testing, and
deploying on AWS
Collaborate securely with your entire:
Manage team access, add team members to projects by role
i.e. owners, contributors
Integrated issue tracking and project management:
Integrates Atlassian JIRA Software to easily manage issues
directly from CodeStar dashboard and monitor application
progress and activity
Supported for popular programming languages:
Develop variety of applications using language of choice
including Java, JavaScript, C#, PHP, Ruby, and Python.
Release code faster:
Set up your entire continuous delivery toolchain in minutes

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Features of AWS CodeStar
 Project Templates
 Team Access Management
with AWS IAM
 Managed Build Service with
AWS CodeBuild
 Unified Project Dashboard
using Amazon CloudWatch
monitoring service
 Issue tracking and project
management tool in
dashboard via integrated
Atlassian JIRA Software
 AWS CodeCommit for
Secure Hosted Git
Repository
 Automated App
Deployments with AWS
CodeDeploy and AWS
CloudFormation
 Integration of AWS
CodePipeline for Automated
Continuous Delivery Pipeline

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Preconfigured AWS CloudFormation templates for quick
development project creation
• Automatic provisioning of underlying AWS services
so the team can get coding quickly
Over twenty different AWS CodeStar project templates
Support for websites, web services, microservices,
Alexa Skills dev projects (and more)
3 Hosting environments
 Self-Managed: Amazon EC2 with AWS CodeDeploy
 Managed: AWS Elastic Beanstalk
 Serverless: AWS Lambda
Amazon
EC2
AWS
CodeDeploy
AWS Elastic
Beanstalk
AWS
Lambda
AWS Codestar – Project Templates

14. AWS CodeStar – Project Templates
Programming Languages
Java
PHP Python
JavaScript Ruby
CodeStar project templates support popular programming
languages and IDEs
IDE/Code Editors
Visual Studio
Eclipse
AWS CLI
AWS CLI
C#

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Project Dashboard
Coordinate your day-to-day development activities
Dashboard provides tools to view real time
application activity, monitor builds, and flow of
code through deployment pipeline
Customize project dashboard by adding,
removing, moving tiles
Add customizable team wiki tile for team
resources sharing or other purposes ex. show code
snippets
Use CodeStar project extensions to add tiles and
functionality dashboard

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Working with Teams
Build project team by granting user access to
CodeStar project
Project Roles
 Owner: Ability to add & remove team members,
contribute code to project repo, grant or deny team
members remote access
 Contributor: Ability to add & remove dashboard
resources, contribute code to the project repository
 Viewer: Ability to view the project dashboard, code,
tiles, and project state
Project team members (users)
 Can have different CodeStar roles and permissions
 Can belong to multiple CodeStar projects

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Programming Languages
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
PHP
.Net Core (new)
IDE/Code Editors
Visual Studio
Eclipse
AWS CLI AWS CLI
CodeStar project templates support popular languages and IDEsAWS CodeStar – Language and IDE Support

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AWS CodeStar – AWS Code Services
Source Build Test Deploy Monitor
AWS CodeBuild
+ Third Party
Enabing CI/CD and Software release steps
AWS CodeCommit AWS CodeBuild AWS CodeDeploy
AWS CodePipeline
AWS
CodeStar
AWS X-Ray
Amazon
CloudWatch

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• Secure, scalable, and managed Git source
control
• Use standard Git tools
• Scalability, availability, and durability of
Amazon S3
• Encryption at rest with customer-specific keys
• No repo size limit
• Post commit hooks to call out to
SNS/Lambda
AWS CodeCommit

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• Fully managed build service that compiles
source code, runs tests, and produces
software packages
• Scales continuously and processes multiple
builds concurrently
• 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 AWS CodePipeline and
Jenkins integration
AWS Code Services – AWS CodeBuild

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• Automates code deployments to any
instance or Lambda function
• Handles the complexity of updating your
applications
• Avoid downtime during application
deployment
• Rollback automatically if failure detected
• Deploy to Amazon EC2, Lambda, or on-
premises servers
• Integrates with third-party tools and AWS
AWS Code Services – AWS CodeDeploy

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• Continuous delivery service for fast and
reliable application updates
• Model and visualize your software release
process
• Builds, tests, and deploys your code every
time there is a code change
• Integrates with third-party tools and AWS
AWS Code Services – AWS CodePipeline

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• Debug and analyze production applications in
cloud or on-premises
• Visualize service graph to identify performance
bottlenecks
• Troubleshoot and fix performance issues
• Quantify customer impact
• Integration with Lambda enables you to monitor
serverless applications
• X-Ray SDK available in Java, .NET, Node.js, and
Python
AWS Code Services – AWS X-Ray

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Demo
CI/CD with AWS CodeStar

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Team
Members
AWS CodeStar
Administrator
Developers
commit
changes
Build
Changes
are built
Deployment
Code is
deployed
Monitoring
Application and
infrastructure
Ideas
Requests
Bug fixes
Developers
Best practices
Team
decisions
Changes
Updates
Fixes
Creates
project and
adds users Customer
input
Quickly develop, build, and deploy applications on AWS
AWS CodeStar – Automated Workflow

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Team
Members
AWS CodeStar
Administrator
Developers
commit
changes
Build
Changes
are built
Deployment
Code is
deployed
Monitoring
Application
and
infrastructure
Ideas
Requests
Bug fixes
Developers
Best practices
Team decisions
Changes
Updates
Fixes
Creates
project and
adds users Customer
input
Quickly develop, build, and deploy applications on AWS
AWS CodeStar – Automated Workflow

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Team
Members
AWS CodeStar
Administrator
Developers
commit
changes
Build
Changes
are built
Deployment
Code is
deployed
Monitoring
Application and
infrastructure
Ideas
Requests
Bug fixes
Developers
Best practices
Team
decisions
Changes
Updates
Fixes
Creates
project and
adds users Customer
input
Quickly develop, build, and deploy applications on AWS
AWS CodeStar – Automated Workflow

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Integrated Issue Tracking
Integrates with Atlassian JIRA Software – issue tracking
and project management tool
Easy JIRA and AWS CodeStar setup
 Log into JIRA and Copy URL from any project
 Enter JIRA URL field in the CodeStar Extensions
Monitor application activity and manage all JIRA issues in
CodeStar dashboard
Create new JIRA tickets for work items directly dashboard

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Summary

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Amazon
CloudWatch
AWS CloudTrail
Monitoring
& Logging
AWS DevOps Portfolio
Enabling Release and Monitor phases
Software Development and
Continuous Delivery Toolchain
AWS CloudFormation
AWS OpsWorks
AWS Config
Infrastructure
as Code
AWS CodeCommit
AWS
CodeDeploy
AWS
CodePipeline
AWS CodeBuild
AWS CodeStar
AWS OpsWorks
for
Chef Automate
AWS X-Ray

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Summary
Learn more
Continuous Integration
https://aws.amazon.com/devops/continuous-integration/
Continuous Delivery
https://aws.amazon.com/devops/continuous-delivery/
CodeStar
https://aws.amazon.com/codestar
Check out Blog Post: Introducing AWS CodeStar
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-codestar/

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Q&A

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Tara E. Walker
@taraw