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[binarythinktank]

This is more of an aws question but its relevant here because my cdk projects include cdk config not just the website code.

i have a simple pipeline setup to react to codecommit event and deploy the code to s3. With a cdk project the repo contains cdk config and iac, is there a way to select only the folder from codecommit that contains the website code to deploy to s3? i cant see an option for this in codepipelineactions.CodeCommitSourceAction, nor in codepipelineactions.S3DeployAction. will i need to add a manual step in between with a lambda that extract just the folder i need from the artifact zip?
cheers

[skinny85]

Do you have any build step between the source and the deployment?

[binarythinktank]

That would make it easier but in this case it's not needed as it's a very basic HTML site. (Actually an older site that client has no budget for to do big updates but I still want to streamline deployment for smaller text changes). I'm experimenting a bit with a lambda step at the moment.

[skinny85]

I would just stick a CodeBuild step after source, and do something like this in the buildspec:

artifacts: {
  'base-directory': 'your-dir',
  files: '**/*',
}

The output artifact of that job will have only the files in your-dir, and you can use that in subsequent stages.

[binarythinktank]

CodeBuild would work and probably easier but it just seemed like overkill for a static website. I have made a lambda that can do what I need. The full pipeline is described here: https://www.binarythinktank.com/blog/static-site-deployment-cdk-aws

[skinny85]

In my opinion, a CodeBuild Project is way less overhead (literally a few lines of CDK code) than a Lambda, that you have to write separate logic for 🙂.

But hey, if it's working for you, that's great 🙂.

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