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Deployment pipeline, part 3: deployment onto an environment

Fri, 07 Oct 2016 10:00:01 +0000

The purpose of every deployment pipeline is… a deployment. So this final part of the series, will focus on just that. If you missed the intro, check out the video where I describe a typical pipeline here. The other parts of this series are part 1: test phase and part 2: build phase.

Once we create an AMI that we’d like to deploy, performing a rolling update on existing instances is fairly easy. Usage of Auto scaling groups and CloudFormation makes it even easier - since AWS Auto scaling groups support the rolling updates out of the box.

Or, if your applications requires blue-green deployments, using CloudFormation is almost essential.

Deployment pipeline, part 2: build phase

Mon, 03 Oct 2016 09:00:58 +0000

Welcome to the second part of my series on deployment pipelines. If you missed the intro, check out the video where I describe a typical pipeline here. The other parts of this series are part 1: test phase and part 3: deployment onto an environment.

After the test phase of the pipeline, once the quality of the code has been checked, we must build a deployable artefact for this version (commit) of the code. In case of AWS, this would be an AMI (Amazon Machine Image), which can then be deployed as a new instance in our environment.

Deployment pipeline, part 1: test phase

Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:00:10 +0000

Welcome to the first part of my series on deployment pipelines. If you missed the intro, check out the video where I describe a typical pipeline here.

First step of a deployment pipeline, is usually a series of tests. After a commit is made, the code is checked out from the source code repository and tested. Those are usually code style tests and unit tests.

Typical CI deployment pipeline - overview

Fri, 23 Sep 2016 00:02:37 +0000

More details on each deployment phase with examples, will be posted at our blog over the coming weeks, so check back soon.