Acheive CI/CD using AWS managed resources & with Jenkins

AWS provides the flexibility to set up pipelines using the below three services to achieve continuous integration and continuous deployment a.k.a CI/CD

a. CodeCommit/Git -  store code in aws codeCommit or a private git repositories.
b. CodeDeploy - automate code deployments
c. CodePipeline - service that deploy, build & test your code

a. Set up Codecommit:  which will be used for version controlling and a useful tool during CI/CD

The first thing is to get the required permissions for the user, setup aws-credentials for your aws environments & then create a repository

a1. Services > IAM > Users > User > Permission > Attach existing policy > AWSCodeCommitPowerUser
a2. Services > IAM > Users > User > Security credentials > HTTPS Git credentials for AWS CodeCommit > Generate credentials

a3. Services > codecommit > create a repo(MyRepo) > cloneURL via Https

 from any host having git installed, do the following
 $ git clone 'clone-https-url'
 // it will prompt for credentials here
 pass the same cred, that you have generated in step a2 
 $ cd repository-directory
 $ vi index.html

 $ vi appspec.yml
 $ git status
 $ git add index.html appspec.yaml
 $ git status
 $ git commit -m 'initial commit'
 $ git push origin master // it will connect via https url and push the file to MyRepo
 $ git log // validate push

this completes the repository setup with a simple source code

b. Set up CodeDeploy to deploy an App: to automate the deployments and adding new features continuously, first is to add 2 roles for codeDeploy for instance.

first setup roles for codeDeploy

create Role1

b1. Services > IAM > Roles > CreateRole > EC2 > AmazonEC2RoleforAWSCodeDeploy
create Role2
b2. Services > IAM > Roles > CreateRole > codeDeploy > AWSCodeDeployRole
create an application
b3. services > codeDeploy > createApp on Ec2
create appDeploymentGroup > name-myappgrp > servicerole-codedeploy-role2 > D-type-In-place > env-config-Amazon-EC2 > add-tag > choose-target-group > createDeploymentGroup

c. Set up CodePipeline: to deploy code from CodeCommit
Services > CodePipeline > create > name-pipeline arn:role> source-CodeCommit > connect/authorize > select-RepoCreatedInStep a3 > branch-Master > Detection-aws-codePipeline > buildProvider-skipBuildStage > deploymentProvider-AWS CodeDeploy >  App-myApp > D-Group-myappgrp > createPipeline

once the pipeline is created it will connect to the source & start deploying the code present in codecommit, and apear as below -

Similarly, you can use GitHub also as a source provider 

Set up CodePipeline: to deploy code from GitHub
Services > CodePipeline > create > name-pipeline arn:role> source-GitHub > connect/authorize > Add Git-Repo > branch-Main > detection-aws-codePipeline-ec2 > buildProvider- skip build stage > deploymentProvider-AWS CodeDeploy >  App-myApp > D-Group-myappgrp > createPipeline

once the pipeline is created it will connect to the source Git this time & start deploying the code present in Github, and apear as below -

Note: On creating a deployment group you are required to choose your deployment & environment type that's where you will deploy your application, in this exercise I choose to deploy on Amazon EC2 instance using Tag value.

At this stage, you should be able to access your application deployed on the EC2 instance using aws CodeCommit/Git > CodePipeline > S3 > CodeDeploy > EC2 instance

In order to use Jenkins, connect to your Jenkins and do the following

 Install the listed plugins from Manage Plugins section of Jenkins & Restart jenkins

 GitHub Integration
 AWS CodePipeline

 AWS CodeDeploy

 AWS CodeBuild
 Http Request
 File Operations

 Blue Ocean // for new Jenkins UI
 

Time to create a Jenkins Job

• Create a new Freestyle Project
• Add your Source Code Management
• Choose Git, provide repository URL.
• For Build Trigger select Poll SCM to add "H/2 * * * *" in Schedule.
• Under Build Environment, select Delete workspace before build starts check box.
• Under Build actions select AWS CodeBuild. On the AWS Configurations, choose Manually specify access and secret keys and provide the keys. 
• Project Configuration - Provide Region, Project Name, choose Use Jenkins source & leave everything blank.
• Add the second Build step and choose File operation (To make sure that all files cloned from the GitHub repository are deleted) Click Add and select File Delete and give '*' under include file pattern.
• Add the third Build step and choose Http request and give S3 URI till your zip file. ex: http://s3-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/s3-bucket-2021/code-artifact.zip
  Ignore SSL error - yes
• Under HTTP Request, choose Advanced and leave Authorization, Headers & Body to default values. 
• Under Response, for Output response to file, enter the code-artifact.zip file name.
• Add fourth Build step as File operation with 2 substeps - Unzip & File Delete and provide code-artifact.zip to include as zip file & file pattern in file Delete.
• On the Post-build Actions, choose Add post-build actions and select the Deploy an application to AWS CodeDeploy check box and provide values
  CodeDeploy App Name
  CodeDeploy AppGrp Name
  CodeDeployDefault.OneAtATime
  Your AWS Region
• at last choose Deploy Revision
     - choose wait for deployment to finish?

you should be able to access your application deployed on the EC2 instance using CI/CD flow.

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