We are going to move away from manually-executed grunt tasks via the wp-dev-kit repository and move toward an AWS implemented solution. We are going to leverage AWS developer tools to get the job done.
The general process is that you work on code and merge it into the develop branch of the store-locator-plus repository on CodeCommit (the main upstream source). When that code is deemed “ready for testing” the repo manager will merge the develop branch into the staging branch for the repository. CodePipeline should see the change to the staging branch in the repo and fire off the build and deployment processes.
CodeCommit
The repo, and now official “source of truth” for the SLP code and build kit repositories.
ssh://git-codecommit.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/v1/repos/store-locator-plus
The “upstream” aws repo for Store Locator Plus®.
CodeBuild
The build manager that will compile , minify, clean, and otherwise manipulate the stuff in the main SLP repo and prepare it for release. In this case a staging release of the WordPress plugin .zip file.
CodePipeline
Watches the main SLP repo for changes on the staging branch and fires off the CodeBuild execution when that happens.
Our pipeline is the store-locator-plus-staging-release pipeline. It has 3 stages:
Source
The CodeCommit source noted above.
Build
The CodeBuild project noted above.
Note that the CodePipeline takes over the artifact generation output and will dump the final output artifact store-locator-plus.zip into a different CodePipeline specific bucket. This is NOT the same bucket that is specified in the CodeBuild configuration.
Deploy
This is a setting in CodePipeline, NOT a CodeDeploy project, that copies the output artifact (store-locator-plus.zip) from the private CodePipeline artifacts bucket over into the storelocatorplus/builds/staging bucket.
S3 Buckets
This process uses S3 buckets to store build and pipeline artifacts.
The deployment process uses a public web endpoint (HTTP, non-secure) to store the final output artifact alongside some other SLP “goodies”.
The AWS S3 SLP storage site is: http://storelocatorplus.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/
This bucket contains an index.html that has been created “by hand” to link to the staging and production zip files.
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