CodePipeline action types
CodePipeline is an orchestrator service that brings other services together to deliver your software end to end. CodePipeline provides integration with different tools to deliver the software, and these tools are organized by action types to cover the different aspects of the software delivery. Let’s learn about each of these action types in more detail and understand all the capabilities that CodePipeline provides.
The source action type
For any CI/CD pipeline, you need source code to build an artifact and deploy that to your environment. In AWS CodePipeline, the source action type lets you define integration with a version control system to download the source code to build an artifact. Let’s look at the different source code providers that CodePipeline provides out-of-the-box integration with: