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DevOps on AWS: from a commit to an ECS service across accounts

The AWS Developer Tools chain: CodePipeline orchestrates, CodeBuild builds and tests, ECR stores the image, and CodeDeploy rolls it out to ECS behind a load balancer. Each environment is its own AWS account. Written for someone who works only in AWS.

GitHub / CodeCommitCodePipelineCodeBuildECRCodeDeployECS FargateSecrets ManagerCloudWatchIAM / STS

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Here is what's inside:

  • The AWS toolchain
  • How the pipeline deploys into another account
  • One account per environment
  • Inside the pipeline, stage by stage
  • Inside a CodeDeploy blue/green to ECS
  • What each AWS service is for
  • Where AWS pipelines go wrong
  • The interview talk track
  • What I'd improve next

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