Using AWS CodeDeploy to Push New Versions of your Application

Getting new code onto our servers can be done in a myriad of ways these days. Configuration management tools can pull down new code, pipelines can run scripts across our fleets, or we could run around with a USB stick for the rest of our lives. With container based apps, serverless functions, and immutable infrastructure, we’ve changed this conversation quite a bit as well. But what about a plain old server that needs a new version of code deployed on it? AWS CodeDeploy can help us to manage our software versions and rollbacks so that we have a consistent method to update our apps across multiple instances. This post will demonstrate how to get started with AWS CodeDeploy so that you can manage the deployment of new versions of your apps. ...

August 6, 2018 · 10 min · eshanks