Build pipelines in AWS

• Setting up CodeCommit
• Setting up S3
• IAM Permissions
• Setting up CodeBuild
• Setting up CloudWatch

When creating this site I wanted something that was as low maintenance (and as cheap!) as possible, including deployments; that meant creating an automated pipeline to deploy the site when changes were made.

Here’s a short guide on how to create an automated deployment pipeline using existing AWS products. For the purposes of this guide, we’re going to be setting up a website for www.testing-purposes.com

CodeCommit

CodeCommit is AWS’s Git repository server and while you could use GitHub as your repository, I use CodeCommit as it’s free to keep unlimited private repositories for up to 5 users. If you are using GitHub, you can still use CodeBuild, S3, etc. but you won’t have as easy a setup for CloudWatch.

S3

Create the bucket

1. Navigate to S3 and click on Create Bucket.
2. When creating a new S3 bucket, you have to give it a unique name - as we’re planning on hosting a website from it, we’ll just use the domain name: www.testing-purposes.com.
3. Pick your desired region, then hit next and next again and uncheck ‘Block all public access’ as public access will be required to view the site.
4. Click next and then create bucket.

Assign permissions

Now that the bucket has public access, we need to assign permissions to it.

1. Head into S3 and select the bucket
2. Click on the Permissions tab
3. Click on the Bucket Policy button and paste in the following:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "PublicReadGetObject",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": "*",
            "Action": [
                "s3:GetObject"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:s3:::www.testing-purposes.com/*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

This will allow public read only (via s3:GetObject) access to the bucket

IAM Permissions

CodeBuild

CloudWatch