CI/CD Pipeline & DevOps Automation with AWS

This project is part of a 7-part DevOps series, where I implemented a fully automated CI/CD pipeline for an AWS-based web application.

⚠️ Problem Statment

Manual deployments are slow, error-prone, and can cause downtime.

📈 Business Impact

✅ Eliminates manual deployments and speeds up software delivery.
✅ Reduces downtime & risk by testing infrastructure before deployment.
✅ Ensures dev/prod parity—code behaves the same in all environments.

🏢 How Companies Use This

Any company doing frequent deployments (e.g., SaaS companies, fintech) benefits from automated pipelines.

Table of Contents

• Technologies Used
• Setup and Deployment
• Challenges Faced
• Key Learnings
• Future Enhancements
• Contact

Technologies Used

• Version Control: Git, GitHub
• CI/CD Automation: AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeArtifact
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): AWS CloudFormation
• Development: VSCode, AWS EC2 (for development environment)
• Automation & Scripting: AWS CLI

Setup and Deployment

To set up this project on your local machine:

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/joeycloudio/nextwork-devops-webapp.git

2. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd nextwork-devops-webapp

3. Install dependencies:

   mvn install

4. Deploy using AWS CodePipeline:

• Connect GitHub to AWS CodePipeline.
• Define build and deployment stages using AWS services.

Challenges Faced

⚠️ Frequent EC2 connection timeouts → Resolved by restarting VSCode and rebooting the instance.
⚠️ Git authentication issue → Explored credential storage with git config --global credential.helper store.
⚠️ CodeArtifact Setup Delays → Adjusted the pipeline to handle dependency storage efficiently.

Key Learnings

✔️ Built a full CI/CD pipeline from scratch using AWS services.
✔️ Mastered GitHub integration with AWS CodePipeline.
✔️ Implemented automated deployments and rollback strategies with CodeDeploy.
✔️ Used CloudFormation to provision infrastructure automatically.

Future Enhancements

📌 Add monitoring & logging with AWS CloudWatch.
📌 Implement IAM security best practices for pipeline access control.
📌 Extend the pipeline to support multi-environment deployments (Dev → Staging → Prod).

Contact

• Email: joeyacostax@gmail.com

• LinkedIn

• Portfolio & Other AWS Projects