Effective DevOps with AWS - Second Edition

Creating the CodeDeploy application

Now that we have launched EC2 instances with the CodeDeploy service running on them and defined our IAM service role, we have all the requirements to create a CodeDeploy application. As always, there are many ways to use AWS services, but we will demonstrate the basic uses with the web interface in this section:

1. Open https://console.aws.amazon.com/codedeploy in your browser.
2. If prompted, click on Get Started Now.
3. This leads us to a welcome screen with two options, Sample Deployment and Custom Deployment. Choose Custom Deployment and click on Skip Walkthrough. This brings us to a form called Create Application.
4. In that form, under Application Name, give our application the name helloworld.
5. The deployment ...