Creating the appspec file

To create an appspec.yml file in our aws-code-pipeline microservice, perform the following steps:

1. Open the Visual Studio (VS) Code integrated development environment (IDE), click File | New File…, and provide appspec.yml as the name:

Figure 9.10 – VS Code creates a new appspec.yml file

2. Add the following code to the appspec.yml file and click File | Save. In this file, we are specifying the version of the CodeDeploy appspec file as 0.0 and os as Linux as we plan to deploy our application on a Linux system-based EC2 instances. In the files section, we wanted to copy everything from our deployment ZIP file to the home folder of ec2-user, and we have specified that ec2-user is the owner of all the files and has the required permissions to execute scripts. In the hooks section, we have specified two deployment lifecycle events that will be used by the CodeDeploy agent to execute the start.sh script on...