In the dynamic world of software development, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) strategies have emerged as the cornerstone of efficient and error-free coding practices. The unique blend of AWS CodePipeline and GitHub Actions stands out among various CI/CD tools available today. This piece will guide you in setting up a workflow to trigger AWS CodePipeline using GitHub Actions.
Author: Ahmed Salem
Ahmed Salem is a skilled Cloud DevOps Engineer and Amazon Web Services Community Builder. I specialize in Digital Transformation through Cloud Services. I do this by empowering organizations to leverage the latest technologies in the Cloud. This achieved by not only migrating existing workloads to the cloud but modernizing infrastructure to improve availability, scalability, automate repetitive tasks, and increase efficiency.
I completed multiple projects on AWS, Azure, G42, and CGP, spanning over 5 years. During this time I have deployed, configured & managed technologies such as Kubernetes, Containerization, Database & Storage, Networking & Security as well as developing CI/CD pipelines. I am able to implement these technologies manually or by leveraging IaaC through platforms such as Terraform. I am also skilled in automation, server management and have worked on various operating systems such as Linux and MS Windows/Windows server.
Ahmed is skilled in most Cloud Platforms like AWS, Azure, G42, and GCP, and is able to implement various technologies on the Cloud both manually and by leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) through platforms such as Terraform. He is also skilled in automation, server management, and has worked on various operating systems such as Linux and Microsoft Windows/Windows Server.
Creating and Operating AWS CodePipeline for Blue/Green Deployments
The primary objective of this article is to explain how to create an AWS CodePipeline that uses blue/green deployment for container applications when a new Docker image is pushed to the ECR. This pipeline recognizes changes in your Docker image stored in ECR, and leverages AWS CodeDeploy to divert and deploy traffic to an ECS cluster and load balancer.