2: App, Groups, Configs

What is a CodeDeploy “application”?

• A name identifier used reference your deployment settings.

“Deployment Group”?

• Instance(s) where you want to target and deploy your code.
  • This could be even just one instance..!
  • Instance must have CodeDeploy agent installed in User Data

“Deployment Configuration”?

• Set of rules and success/fail conditions used during deploy
• May vary depending on deployment medium (e.g. on-prem vs. lambda)
• Might specify e.g. # of instances that must remain avail during deploy
  • “Minimum healthy host” value (can be %)

What’s the order of ops for deploy?

1. Create the “application”
2. Specify deployment group
3. Specify deploy config
   • With “Min healthy hosts”
4. Upload our “revision” (the pkg to deploy)
5. Deploy
6. Check results
7. Redeploy as needed

What are the Default Deployment Options?

• One at a time
• All at once
• Half at once

More details on deploy configs can be found here.