AWS CodeDeploy and Docker allows to automates code deployments and rapid integration and build up respectively.

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AWS CodeDeploy and Docker

AWS CodeDeploy is an Amazon EC2 service that automates code deployments. As a result, it’s simpler for us to release new features quickly, avoid downtime during deployment, and manage the complexity of updating our applications.

The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, allowing organisations to build and share any application — from legacy to what’s next — and securely run it anywhere.

AWS CodeDeploy is a tool in the “Deployment as a Service” category, whereas Docker is in the “Virtual Machine Platforms & Containers” category.

Features of AWS CodeDeploy

1. Our code deployments are fully automated with AWS CodeDeploy, allowing us to deploy reliably and quickly.
2. By performing rolling updates and tracking application health, AWS CodeDeploy helps us maximise application availability.
3. AWS CodeDeploy enables us to quickly launch and track our deployments.

Features of Docker

1. Open, portable images with integrated developer tools.
2. Reusable and shareable apps

Install the CodeDeploy agent for Amazon Linux

1. Firstly, Log in to the instance and run the commands below one by one.

   sudo yum update

   sudo yum install ruby

   sudo yum install wget
2. Run the following script to clear the AMI of any previous agent caching information:

   
#!/bin/bash
CODEDEPLOY_BIN="/opt/codedeploy-agent/bin/codedeploy-agent"
$CODEDEPLOY_BIN stop
yum erase codedeploy-agent -y

3. Then, change the directory

   cd /home/ec2-user

   The default user name for an Amazon Linux instance in Amazon EC2 is /home/ec2-user.
4. Then run the below command:

   wget https://bucket-name.s3.region-identifier.amazonaws.com/latest/install

   “bucket-name” is the name of the Amazon S3 bucket in which the CodeDeploy Resource Kit files are stored. Our region’s identifier is “region-identifier”.
5. Then, run:-

   chmod +x ./install
6. To install the most recent version of the CodeDeploy agent, use the command:

   sudo ./install auto
7. If we want to install a specific CodeDeploy agent version:, use the command:

   sudo ./install auto -v releases/codedeploy-agent-###.rpm
8. Run the following command to see if the service is up and running:

   sudo service codedeploy-agent status
9. If the CodeDeploy agent is installed and operational, we should see a message similar to “The AWS CodeDeploy agent is running”.
10. If we see a message like “error: No AWS CodeDeploy agent running,” run the two commands below, one at a time:

    sudo service codedeploy-agent start sudo service codedeploy-agent status

Docker Installation on AWS Linux

1. Run the following command to update the installed packages and package cache on our instance:

   sudo yum update -y

2. Then, run the command,

   sudo yum install -y docker
3. Then, start the docker service by running the command:

   sudo service docker start
4. Add the ec2-user to the docker group to run Docker commands without the need for sudo.

   sudo usermod -a -G docker ec2-user
5. Finally, reboot the server:

   reboot

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Conclusion

To sum up, our knowledgeable engineers distinguish between AWS CodeDeploy and dcoker.