Deploy to AWS CloudFormation
The AWS CloudFormation action lets you create, update and delete CF stacks on a push to branch, recurrently on a time interval, or manually on a click.
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Configure pipeline in Buddy
- Create a new project in Buddy and select your Git provider:
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- Add a new pipeline and configure the details: name, trigger mode, and branch from which you want to deploy.
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Configure AWS CloudFormation action
Warning
Before you add the action, make sure that your AWS user has proper permissions assigned and full programmatic access to AWS.
- Look up AWS on the action list and click AWS CloudFormation to add it to the pipeline:
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- Within the action, you first select the method you need and provide your CloudFormation stack's details to proceed. There are four methods available:
- Deploy
- Create
- Update
- Delete
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- Once you add the method, you will be able to adjust additional settings available within the action. The action has five configuration tabs in total:
- Run – here you select the AWS integration and provide the deployment command
- Environment – if your process requires specific dependencies, you can install them here. The files will stay cached in the container for future pipeline runs
- Variables – here you can view the variables created by your AWS integration, and create your own if required
- Conditions – here you configure the trigger conditions for which the action will run
- Options – here you define the action's name and behavior on failure and timeout
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- When ready, click Add this action to finish configuration.
Success
Congratulations – you have just automated serverless deployments with AWS CloudFormation and Buddy! 🥳
Last update:
Sep 24, 2024
Sep 24, 2024