What is AWS CodeDeploy?
AWS CodeDeploy is a service that automates code deployments to Amazon EC2 instances. AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps you avoid downtime during deployment, and handles the complexity of updating your applications.
AWS CodeDeploy is a tool in the Deployment as a Service category of a tech stack.
Who uses AWS CodeDeploy?
Companies
140 companies reportedly use AWS CodeDeploy in their tech stacks, including deleokorea, AB180, and Lendit.
Developers
239 developers on StackShare have stated that they use AWS CodeDeploy.
AWS CodeDeploy Integrations
GitHub, Jenkins, Amazon EC2, Travis CI, and Ansible are some of the popular tools that integrate with AWS CodeDeploy. Here's a list of all 11 tools that integrate with AWS CodeDeploy.
Pros of AWS CodeDeploy
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AWS CodeDeploy's Features
- AWS CodeDeploy fully automates your code deployments, allowing you to deploy reliably and rapidly
- AWS CodeDeploy helps maximize your application availability by performing rolling updates across your Amazon EC2 instances and tracking application health according to configurable rules
- AWS CodeDeploy allows you to easily launch and track the status of your deployments through the AWS Management Console or the AWS CLI
- AWS CodeDeploy is platform and language agnostic and works with any application. You can easily reuse your existing setup code
AWS CodeDeploy Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to AWS CodeDeploy?
AWS CodePipeline
CodePipeline builds, tests, and deploys your code every time there is a code change, based on the release process models you define.
Jenkins
In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
Ansible
Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. Ansible’s goals are foremost those of simplicity and maximum ease of use.
Chef
Chef enables you to manage and scale cloud infrastructure with no downtime or interruptions. Freely move applications and configurations from one cloud to another. Chef is integrated with all major cloud providers including Amazon EC2, VMWare, IBM Smartcloud, Rackspace, OpenStack, Windows Azure, HP Cloud, Google Compute Engine, Joyent Cloud and others.