Introduction to Amazon Code Pipeline with Java part 2: setup

Introduction

In the previous post we set out the main topic of this series. We’ll be talking and Amazon Code Pipeline and what it can do for you in terms of Continuous Delivery. The larger part of the post dealt with the differences between 3 related topics: Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Continuous Delivery.

Code Pipeline is an example of an automated Continuous Delivery tool which can help you with the often tedious steps of builds, test runners and deployments. The idea is that the developer can concentrate on the exciting stuff, such as writing some fantastically well-written code which is then pushed into a code repository, like GitHub. The rest of the steps is then handled by a CI/CD tool like Jenkins.

In this post we’ll take a quick visual tour of Code Pipeline so that you get the idea how to set up a new pipeline. We won’t yet add a custom job runner as that is not part of the initial setup process.

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