AWS Serverless: Pipelines & Deployments

Introduction

AWS Serverless architecture allows developers to build applications without the need to manage infrastructure. This lesson will focus on using AWS services to create CI/CD pipelines for deploying serverless applications.

Key Concepts

Setting Up Pipelines

Follow these steps to set up a CI/CD pipeline for a serverless application:

1. Define your application architecture and resources using AWS SAM (Serverless Application Model).
2. Create a buildspec.yml file for AWS CodeBuild to define build commands.
3. Set up AWS CodePipeline to orchestrate the build and deployment process.
4. Deploy your application using AWS CloudFormation.

Example: buildspec.yml

version: 0.2

phases:
  install:
    runtime-versions:
      nodejs: 14
  build:
    commands:
      - echo Build started on `date`
      - npm install
      - npm run build
artifacts:
  files:
    - '**/*'
  base-directory: build/

Flowchart of CI/CD Pipeline

graph TD;
                A[Code Commit] --> B(AWS CodePipeline);
                B --> C[AWS CodeBuild];
                C --> D[AWS CodeDeploy];
                D --> E[AWS Lambda Deployment];
                E --> F[Application Live];
            

Best Practices

• Automate testing to ensure code quality.
• Use version control for all your infrastructure as code.
• Monitor your applications using AWS CloudWatch.
• Keep your pipeline configurations as simple as possible.
• Implement rollback strategies for failed deployments.

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