Angular-starter-aws-cicd

Demonstrates creation of a CI CD pipeline in AWS for a Angular boot application.

The sample Angular Boot application used for this exercise resides at this location https://github.com/nj11/Angular_starter

The AWS CI / CD tools used are:

• AWS CodeBuild
• AWS CodePipeline
• AWS Beanstalk for deployment environment.

Pre-requisites

Amazon developer console account login.If you don't have an account create it here. https://aws.amazon.com/console/

Environment

• GitHub --> Code Repository
• AWS Beanstalk --> Deployment environment
• AWS CodeBuild --> Build tool that builds artifacts from source code
• S3 --> Artifacts are staged here after build.
• AWS CodePipeline --> Code checked into Github triggers a AWS build which deploys artifacts to S3 and then deploys them to AWS Beanstalk environment.

Step 1 : Beanstalk environment creation.

• Sign in to to AWS console using your account .Navigate to My Account--> AWS Management Console. Go to Services-->Elastic beanstalk and then select Create a new application.

• Select the appropriate tier.In this case we are selecting Web server environment.

• Enter your application details.

• Enter application platform, in this case it's Java

• For now choose sample application.We will upload and deploy application jar later.

• Environment creation takes a few minutes.

• Once the environment is ready, click on the enviornment name link as highlighted.

• You can check the environment page, along with configuration details like enviornment variables,logs and application URL.

Step 2 : AWS Pipeline creation including creating the build stage

• Make sure the buildspec.yml exists in the root folder of your github project

• Select Developer Tools --> CodePipeline--> Create Pipeline

• Enter pipeline name and service role for this pipeline.

• Enter Artifact store and enryption key.Defaults are used here.

• Enter source code location.GitHub in this case.Can also select AWS CodeCommit if that is the case.

• Create a build stage.

• Enter build configuration details.

• Enter deploy stage details.Deploy provider is AWS Beanstalk.Enter Beanstalk environment and application name to deploy to.

• Review and create pipeline.

• Pipeline runs after it's created.Anytime source code changes,pipeline is triggered automatically.

• AWS S3 stores the build and deploy artifacts for this pipeline.