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AWS Developer Tools

AWS CodeCommit

• fully managed private Repository Hosting
• All features of git are supported
• Integration with Cloudwatch Events, SNS Subscription
• IAM
  • HTTPS git credentials
  • SSH
• Codecommit permissions

CI/CD Pipeline

AWS Code Build

• fully managed build service
• uses docker build containers/allows custom images
• buildspec file ----> defines build artifacts(Lambda, S3 Hooks, etc) can be stored

AWS Code Deploy

• fully managed deploy service
• it can deploy artefacts from builds
• can be automated on successful build
• Agent install ~ need to choose OS to deploy Code
• appspec file : (For EC2 deploy yml) , for lambda it can be yml or json
• deployment groups will have agent installed

AWS Code Pipeline

• continous delievary system
• features
  • automation of build,test & release
  • manual approvals
  • pipelines history reports
  • pipeline status visualisation
• very good integration with other code services
• Pipeline Concepts : Pipeline, Stage, Action, Transition
• Action Types : Approval, Source, Build, Test, Deploy, Invoke
• Integration Options
  • Pipeline Action Types
  • CloudWatch Events
  • Invoke Lambdas

AWS Codestar

• quickly launch CI/CD pipeline that suits your requirements
• Dashboard Visualisation
• Team Membership Management
• Issues and Ticket Tracking Management

AWS X-ray

• Trend : Monoliths ----> Microservices
• Challange : Distributes Applications are harder to debug !!!
• Has too many moving parts, they are difficult to keep track of efficiency issue
• provides visibility in working microservices and trace pathways and find error, bottlenecks in application.
• X-Ray Sampling is a great way to debug performance issues in distributed applications