Problem

Our team was tasked with developing and deploying a card game application on AWS. We quickly realized that manual deployment would be time-consuming and inefficient, especially when it came to version control. We needed a solution that would automate the deployment process while ensuring efficient updates and version control.

After researching various options, we found that a GitHub-triggered continuous deployment pipeline would be the best solution for our needs. However, we had never implemented such a pipeline before and needed to figure out how to set it up from scratch.

Solution

To implement our continuous deployment pipeline, we first created an AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment for our application. We then set up an AWS CodePipeline that was triggered by changes in our GitHub repository. This pipeline included three stages: source, build, and deploy.

In the source stage, changes made to the GitHub repository were automatically detected and pulled into the pipeline. In the build stage, we used AWS CodeBuild to compile and package our code into a deployable artifact. Finally, in the deploy stage, we used AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy our artifact to our production environment.

Impact

Reduced deployment time by X%
Improved version control by X%

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Team

Team Member #1 - Software Engineer
- Oversaw the creation and implementation of the continuous deployment pipeline
- Set up AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment and AWS CodePipeline
Team Member #2 - DevOps Engineer
- Configured AWS CodeBuild to compile and package code into a deployable artifact
- Implemented GitHub integration with AWS CodePipeline

Automating AWS Card Game App Deployment