Share your experience using AWS CodeDeploy

You can easily integrate AWS CodeDeploy with multiple services. For example, I can use the solution to access repositories and deploy images in the Kubernetes cluster. That will help me deploy my application seamlessly, providing high availability and resilience.

People face difficulties creating pipelines in AWS CodeDeploy. AWS should provide its own templates in the console so that I don't need to go anywhere else to get the template for AWS CodeDeploy or AWS CodeBuild.

I have been using AWS CodeDeploy for around one and a half years.

Since the AWS community is vast, we can get answers to any issue easily. AWS provides a lot of community support.

Positive

The solution's initial setup is easy.

Since we are using a dedicated AWS environment, the solution's pricing is fine.

Our main priority is to follow best practices as much as possible. If we do that, we can achieve our goals with the help of DevOps. For example, we don't keep things hard-coded.

Currently, our repository is on AWS CodeCommit. So, we are integrating everything dedicatedly into the AWS environment. We're building our codes with the help of AWS CodeBuild. We are providing all permissions for AWS CodeCommit and AWS CodeBuild. We are deploying those things with the help of AWS CodeDeploy.

Recommending the solution to other users depends on their requirements. If someone wants a dedicated AWS environment, they can choose AWS CodeDeploy.

Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

Basically, my company is for learning about code, but we don't use all the services that are available in the market. My company mostly relies on EC2, Lambda, RDS and S3 or sometimes we are using the load balancer,like ELB and CI/CD for AWS CodePipeline.

The feature I like the most in AWS CodeDeploy depends on my requirements, so if I want to copy some file inside the server or if I want to run something inside a server, AWS CodeDeploy is helpful. AWS CodeDeploy agent only runs everything on the server. Without an AWS CodeDeploy agent, we can't do anything inside the server through AWS CodePipeline.

I know about Jenkins. I have automated multiple applications through Jenkins. When using Jenkins, I need to have more options in AWS CodeDeploy. Jenkins has more than 2,500 plugins. AWS CodeDeploy should have all the plugins similar to the ones offered by Jeniks. AWS CodeDeploy doesn't provide multiple plugins like Jenkins, which is a shortcoming where improvements are required. If AWS CodeDeploy introduces a new GUI in the tool, it would be better.

I have been using AWS CodeDeploy for a year and a half. I am a user of the tool.

It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

The technical support for the solution is good, and I have contacted them two or three times. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten.

Positive

I have experience with Jenkins. For a very short time, I have used Python on Azure.

The product's initial setup phase is easy.

The solution can be deployed in five to ten minutes.

The product's price is normal.

A scenario where AWS CodeDeploy to automate our company's application deployment involves the use of CI/CD pipeline and AWS CodePipeline. For automation purposes, my company uses an AWS CodeDeploy agent. After installing and configuring AWS CodeDeploy agent in a server, AWS CodePipeline will be able to deploy the code into that server.

My company uses AppSpec for AWS CodePipeline to integrate AWS CodeDeploy with other services.

I won't recommend the tool to others.

I rate the overall tool an eight out of ten.