Docker

With the proliferation of containerized solutions to simplify creating, deploying, and running applications, coupled with the use of automation CI/CD pipelines that continuously rebuild, test, and deploy such applications when new changes are committed, it’s important that your CI/CD pipelines run as quickly as possible, enabling you to get early feedback and allowing for faster releases. AWS CodeBuild supports local caching, which makes it possible to persist intermediate build artifacts, like a Docker layer cache, locally on the build host and reuse them in subsequent runs. The CodeBuild local cache is maintained on the host at best effort, so it’s possible several of your buildRead More →

Dmitry Kolomiets, DevOps Consultant, Professional Services AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild are the primary AWS services for building CI/CD pipelines. AWS CodeBuild supports a wide range of build scenarios thanks to various built-in Docker images. It also allows you to bring in your own custom image in order to use different tools and environment configurations. However, there are some limitations in using custom images. Considerations for custom Docker images: AWS CodeBuild has to download a new copy of the Docker image for each build job, which may take longer time for large Docker images. AWS CodeBuild provides a limited set of instance types to runRead More →