AWS CodeBuild is a managed service geared toward compiling source code. It is comparable to Jenkins but since it's a managed service that conforms to AWS standards, it presents a different set of features and benefits. In our case, using CodeBuild over Jenkins will allow us to create containers without needing to spin up and manage an extra EC2 instance. The service also integrates well with CodePipeline, which, as before, will drive our process.
We will use CloudFormation through the intermediary of Troposphere to create our CodeBuild project.
We will also create a new script and call it helloworld-codebuild-cf-template.py. We will start with our usual import, template variable creation, ...
