Building our deployment pipeline with AWS CodePipeline

AWS CodePipeline is a service dedicated to creating delivery pipelines. You can think of it as similar to the Jenkins pipelines feature with an AWS twist. The service is very well integrated with the rest of the AWS ecosystem, which means that it has a number of great features and useful advantages over Jenkins. Because it's a fully managed service, you don't have to worry about its uptime the way we do with a single Jenkins instance. It integrates out of the box with CodeDeploy, which is very handy for our case. While we won't go into too much detail here, the service is fully integrated with the IAM service, which means that you have a very granular level of control over who can do ...

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