Effective DevOps with AWS

Making changes to CodeDeploy to better handle logging

We will first make CodeDeploy generate the version file. To do that, we will open the appspec.ymlfile at the root of the helloworld application directory.

At the bottom of the file, after the ValidateService hook, we will use a new hook to trigger our setversion script. This operation will need to happen after the helloworld application is installed. As such, we will want to add the following hook:

  AfterInstall: 
    - location: scripts/setversion.sh 
      timeout: 180 

We now need to handle our new files. The first one is the logrotate configuration. In the files section at the top of our appsec file, add the following:

  - source: conf/logrotate 
    destination: /etc/logrotate.d/helloworld 

Lastly, ...