Effective DevOps with AWS

Starting and configuring our CloudFormation stack

We will proceed as usual for the first part:

$ git add helloworld-codepipeline-cf-template.py$ git commit -m "Adding Pipeline to deploy our helloworld application using ECS"$ git push$ python helloworld-codepipeline-cf-template.py > helloworld-codepipeline-cf.template$ aws cloudformation create-stack \      --stack-name helloworld-codepipeline \      --capabilities CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM \      --template-body file://helloworld-codepipeline-cf.template

We are using the CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM capability in this case, as we are defining custom names at the IAM level.

This will create our pipeline. There is a small gotcha to it, which is that we didn't specify the GitHub credentials in the pipeline. The main reason ...