AWS CodePipeline Information Reviews & Insights

It is used across the whole organization to automatically build, deploy, test, and migrate data to the stacks. In this way, we have unique environments for each branch that allows us to see the expected changes for testing manually and the results of the integration tests. In updates in each push to the branch.

It is very suited for automation of build, data migration, deployment, and tests for a stack for every push on a branch (or with a different configuration). For large projects, this is great. It facilitates the process of development and testing. Sometimes the space (and costs) are a constraint but the facility is worth it.

AWS CodePipeline is used to manage CI/CD pipelines for various products we build for customers on AWS. It is being used for such products associated with various projects across our whole organization. It enabled us to build delivery pipelines for applications we are deploying on AWS native stacks.

AWS CodePipeline is the best solution to use if your application stack is completely AWS-native. This means you are exclusively using AWS tools to manage your source control, build management, and you are deploying your applications to AWS services such as EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, EMR, etc. It integrates very well with AWS CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and Elastic Beanstalk to manage source control, building, and deployment. However, it does not integrate too well with third-party source control and build management tools such as Github, Travis, Jenkins, CodeShip, etc.

CodePipeline is a very flexible continuous integration and continuous delivery tool. Our organization development team uses it to build and deploy our app; it makes deploying within the AWS environment a bit easier.

If you're already on AWS, then using it as your build/test/deploy system makes a lot of sense. However, there are easier tools out there to do it that may not be as flexible, or may work better with your source control system.