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# CodePipeline

a continuous delivery service to automate your build, test, deploy process for rapid delivery

[Conceps](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/latest/userguide/concepts.html) | 

## Overview

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* ***Visual workflow*** to orchestrate CD pipelines. Pipeline can be edited when needed to add or remove stages.
* Each stage in the pipeline creates an artifact which is stored in S3 (Artifact Store). The next stage uses this artifact as input.
* When a developer commit a code change to source repo -> CodePipeline will auto detect the changes -> Auto build -> Deploy to staging for Testing -> (Manually approval) -> Deploy to production.

### Pipeline

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* ***Source***: CodeCommit, ECR, S3
* ***Build***: [CodeBuild](/aws/services/devtools/cicd/codebuild.md)
* ***Test:*** [CodeBuild](/aws/services/devtools/cicd/codebuild.md)&#x20;
* ***Deploy***: CodeDeploy, ECS, Margate, Beanstalk

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### Benefits

* Configurable workflow
* Easy to integrate with your pre-built plugins (Github, Jenkins) or custom plugins.

## Features

* Access control using IAM.
* Receive notifications using SNS.

## Concepts

* [Stage](#overview): is ***a logical unit***. Each stage contains [actions](#concepts) that are performed on the application [artifacts](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/latest/userguide/concepts.html#concepts-artifacts).
* [Action](#concepts): is a ***set of operations***. [Valid CodePipeline action](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/latest/userguide/reference-pipeline-structure.html#actions-valid-providers) types are `source`, `build`, `test`, `deploy`, `approval`, and `invoke`. The action can be run parallel or sequential.
* [Execution](#concepts): is a ***set of changes*** released by a pipeline. Each pipeline execution is unique and has its own ID.&#x20;
* [Transition](#concepts): is the point where a [pipeline execution](#concepts) moves to the next [stage](#concepts).

<figure><img src="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/images/codepipeline/latest/userguide/images/pipeline-elements-workflow.png" alt="" width="188"><figcaption><p>A transition</p></figcaption></figure>