Creating a Multi-Account CI/CD Pipeline with AWS CodePipeline

Whenever I’ve tried to learn a particular service or functionality within AWS, I find the best way is to do the ClickOps approach (i.e. Good Old Point and Click in the Console). Once I’ve figured out how to get it working via that method, I then go through the process of trying to automate it through Infrastructure as Code and in my case thats using AWS CloudFormation.

One particular example of this was getting a bit more familiar with AWS CodePipeline so that I could try to automate the delivery of CloudFormation Templates across multiple AWS Accounts in a similar manner as to how you would deploy solutions in a Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC). When I was learning how to do this through the management console, I found out that its not possible to do it all within the console and therefore you have to also leverage the AWS CLI for specific parts.