Example app with AWS Cloudfront, S3, Lambda, CDK, API Gateway and Github actions based CI/CD
This repository contains code that is deployed by the pipeline repository. The project is built by github actions and adds the artifacts and manifest to the pipeline S3 bucket which triggers the deployment pipeline. The artifacts produced are:
- site - website that displays the guitars
- api - lambda function that is used for the backend
- tests - a couple of basic E2E tests to smoke test the deployment
- deploy - contains the deployment project which is passed the artifacts keys as environment variables and then run
The app is deployed to two Cloudfront distribution and S3 bucket pairs, in a Green/Blue deployment strategy. More information about this can be seen in this blog post. The data layer, in the form of a DynamoDB table is shared between the two environments which needs to be considered when deploying.
For the code to run in the pipeline need to do a find and replace on the string guitarapp and change it to the value that is set in the pipeline repo.
When the app is deploying correctly, will obviously need to change the api. site and tests to make the app.
Once the pipeline repository is bootstrapped need to add the following secrets to the github actions secrets repo:
| name | value |
|---|---|
| PIPELINE_AWS_ACCOUNT | AWS account number, currently all code is designed to deploy to same account. |
| BUILD_ACCESS_KEY_ID | Create credential from bootstrapped build user. |
| BUILD_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY | Create credential from bootstrapped build user. |