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Question 10
As the Lead DevOps Engineer at an analytics company, you are deploying a global application using a CICD pipeline comprising of AWS CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy and orchestrated by AWS CodePipeline. Your pipeline is currently setup in eu-west-1 and you would like to extend the pipeline to deploy your application in us-east-2. This will require a multi-step CodePipeline to be created there and invoked.
How would you implement a solution to address this use-case?
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At the end of the pipeline in eu-west-1, include a CodePipeline step to invoke the CodePipeline in us-east-2. Ensure the CodePipeline in us-east-2 has the necessary IAM permission to read the artifacts in S3 in eu-west-1
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B
At the end of the pipeline in eu-west-1, include an S3 step to copy the artifacts being used by CodeDeploy to an S3 bucket in us-east-2. Make the CodePipeline in us-east-2 source files from S3
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At the end of the pipeline in eu-west-1, include a CodeDeploy step to deploy the application to the CodePipeline in us-east-2
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At the end of the pipeline in eu-west-1, include a CodeCommit step to push the changes to the code into the master branch of another CodeCommit repository in us-east-2. Make the CodePipeline in us-east-2 source files from CodeCommit
Reveal correct answer
Correct answer: B
Explanation
Correct option:
At the end of the pipeline in eu-west-1, include an S3 step to copy the artifacts being used by CodeDeploy to an S3 bucket in us-east-2. Make the CodePipeline in us-east-2 source files from S3
AWS CodePipeline is a continuous delivery service you can use to model, visualize, and automate the steps required to release your software. You can quickly model and configure the different stages of a software release process. CodePipeline automates the steps required to release your software changes continuously.
CodePipeline Overview:
CodePipeline Key Concepts:
For the given use-case, you can use an S3 deploy step to copy artifacts into another bucket. Then CodePipeline in the other region will respond to an event and source the files from the other bucket and kickstart the deployment pipeline there.
Incorrect options:
At the end of the pipeline in eu-west-1, include a CodeDeploy step to deploy the application to the CodePipeline in us-east-2 - CodeDeploy cannot deploy to AWS CodePipeline. CodeDeploy can only deploy to EC2, on-premise, Lambda, and ECS.
At the end of the pipeline in eu-west-1, include a CodeCommit step to push the changes to the code into the master branch of another CodeCommit repository in us-east-2. Make the CodePipeline in us-east-2 source files from CodeCommit - CodePipeline can only source from CodeCommit, it cannot push commits to it.
At the end of the pipeline in eu-west-1, include a CodePipeline step to invoke the CodePipeline in us-east-2. Ensure the CodePipeline in us-east-2 has the necessary IAM permission to read the artifacts in S3 in eu-west-1 - CodePipeline cannot invoke another CodePipeline directly. This is something you might be able to achieve using a Custom Action and a Lambda function, but you would need to make sure artifacts are copied locally as well.
References:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/latest/userguide/welcome-introducing.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/latest/userguide/integrations-action-type.html
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