Build Process and Pipelines

Question 1

What are the three main steps in the whole env build process?

Answer 1

Prepare the infrastructure configuration
Deploy an envrionment
Deploy a service

Question 2

What are the two types of pipeline?

Answer 2

Deploy pipeline
Codebase pipeline

Question 3

What do the different pipelines do?

Answer 3

Environment pipelines deploy infratsructure changes
Codebase pipelines deploy application codebase changes

Question 4

List the commands used to setup environments and pipelines along with the stages

Answer 4

Prepare the infrastructure config
copilot app init

Deploy an environment
platform-helper environment generate-terraform –name
terraform init
terraform apply
platform-helper environment generate –name
platform-helper generate
copilot env init –name –default-config
copilot env deploy –name

Deploy a service
create the copilot/<svc>/manifest.yml
platform-helper generate
copilot svc init --name web
copilot svc deploy --name web --env dev</svc>

Question 5

What resources are typically created by copilot in two main stages

Answer 5

Demodjango-<env>
AWS::ECS::Cluster
AWS::IAM::Role
AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup
AWS::EC2::SecurityGroupIngress
AWS::ServiceDiscovery::PrivateDnsNamespace</env>

Services
IAM Roles, S3 buckets, S3 policies, ALB
AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition
AWS::Lambda::Function
AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2::TargetGroup