The Stack Part 2: Automating Deployments via CI

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In the last post we created our Control Tower structure with all of our AWS Accounts in it. In this post we will be automating our deployment process for each of these environments. See the full overview of posts here.

At the end of this post we will have:

• A workflow for bootstrapping our AWS Accounts for CDK (see here).
• A workflow for deploying our CDK stacks, including synthesizing and testing before (see here).
• Set up automatic staggered deployments when changes are merged to our main branch.
• And fallback to manual deployments if we need to.

If you want to jump straight to the code, you can find it in the GitHub repository which links directly to the Part 2 branch.

Otherwise, let’s jump in!

• AWS: Seting up Credentials
• GitHub: Setting up Environments
• CDK: Infrastructure as Code
• Automated Deployments via GitHub Actions
  ◦ Boostrap Workflow
  ◦ Deployment Workflow
  ◦ Trigger the Workflows
• Manual alternative: Bootstrapping our Accounts
• Manual alternative: Deployments
• Bonus: Justfile and just
• Next Steps

AWS: Seting up Credentials