Did you know you can skip Code Pipeline and build ECR Images directly from Code Pipeline?

You can use a V2 Code Pipeline to both build and push up your ECR images with out ever needing to invoke Code Pipeline.

How does this benefit you?

In reality this just slightly streamlines the process. Less terraform to define, less permissions to debug but at the same time it obscures the underlying hardware by another layer and restricts how you can customize your Code Build jobs.

A Peak Under The Hood:

Digging in deep on the docs I found the following:

This action uses CodePipeline managed CodeBuild compute to run commands in a build environment. Running the commands action will incur separate charges in AWS CodeBuild.

So in reality think of this more of a wrapper for CodeBuild.

And as for pricing you will likely see the costs show up as CodeBuild costs billed out at the normal rates.

Wrapping It Up:

Again I want to thank my esteemed colleague Jonathan Limbird for busting this one out at our most recent Cloud War Games Live Event.

Question For You:

What does your docker build pipeline look like?