Source Phase

The Source phase use a Codepipeline source action to pull our code from a zipped archive in an S3 bucket. This zipped archive contains our source code, K8s manifests and CodeBuild buildspec files. Other source options are also available such as Github and Bitbucket are available through Codestar Connections.

S3 source

The Cloudformation specification of source from a S3 zipped archive for our workshop:

      Stages:
        - Name: Source
          Actions:
            - Name: App
              ActionTypeId:
                Category: Source
                Owner: AWS
                Version: 1
                Provider: S3
              Configuration:
                S3Bucket: !Sub "${AWS::AccountId}-app-bucket-${LaceworkAccountName}"
                S3ObjectKey: !Sub "${S3KeyPrefix}/app/app.zip"
                PollForSourceChanges: false
              OutputArtifacts:
                - Name: App
              RunOrder: 1

A Github source using AWS Codestar connections:

      Stages:
        - Name: Source
          Actions:
            - Name: GitHubRepo
              ActionTypeId:
                Category: Source
                Owner: AWS
                Provider: CodeStarSourceConnection
                Version: 1
              Configuration:
                ConnectionArn: arn:aws:codestar-connections:us-west-2:911290716430:connection/baf6fdba-995f-4e59-8497-49c224c3479b
                FullRepositoryId: lacework-alliances/aws-secured-pipeline
                BranchName: master
              OutputArtifacts:
                - Name: App
              RunOrder: 1

Codestar connections for other source code repositories can be created from Settings > Connections.

Codestar connections

Codestar connection create

Challenge

Can you simultaneously create a Codestar connection and use it in your AWS CloudFormation?