Continuous Delivery of Nested AWS CloudFormation Stacks Using AWS CodePipeline

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In CodePipeline Update – Build Continuous Delivery Workflows for CloudFormation Stacks, Jeff Barr discusses infrastructure as code and how to use AWS CodePipeline for continuous delivery. In this blog post, I discuss the continuous delivery of nested CloudFormation stacks using AWS CodePipeline, with AWS CodeCommit as the source repository and AWS CodeBuild as a build and testing tool. I deploy the stacks using CloudFormation change sets following a manual approval process.

Here’s how to do it:

In AWS CodePipeline, create a pipeline with four stages:

Continuous Integration - Manage shared resources across accounts automatically

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I prefer creating the base AMI using packer; RDS snapshot using a Jenkins job which get triggered whenever there is a change in the database schema in the SCM. In case of installers, binaries, etc. it would be best to store them in a single S3 bucket.

In all the above mentioned scenarios I prefer to share those resources to a 3rd party AWS account and remove the share when not needed. Automating this would be easy to handle add/remove permissions, hence I decided to hold the sharing details in a JSON file in the SCM. Changes to that file will trigger a Jenkins job which will invoke a Lambda function which in turn will share the resources based on the values in the JSON file.

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Continuous Delivery of Nested AWS CloudFormation Stacks Using AWS CodePipeline

Continuous Integration - Manage shared resources across accounts automatically