AWS CodeBuild Concepts

Internal

• AWS CodeBuild

Build Project

Service Role

The service role, unless specified otherwise, is automatically created with the following policies:

CodeBuildBasePolicy-<build-project-name>-<region>

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:logs:us-west-2:673499572719:log-group:/aws/codebuild/playground-ops",
                "arn:aws:logs:us-west-2:673499572719:log-group:/aws/codebuild/playground-ops:*"
            ],
            "Action": [
                "logs:CreateLogGroup",
                "logs:CreateLogStream",
                "logs:PutLogEvents"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:s3:::codepipeline-us-west-2-*"
            ],
            "Action": [
                "s3:PutObject",
                "s3:GetObject",
                "s3:GetObjectVersion",
                "s3:GetBucketAcl",
                "s3:GetBucketLocation"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

CodeBuildVpcPolicy-<build-project-name>-<region>

CodeBuildCloudWatchLogsPolicy-<build-project-name>-<region>

For operational details on handling the service role, see

CodeBuild Operations - Role name

Security Group

The build project configuration allows selecting on or more security groups, which are security groups that AWS CodeBuild should use to work with the VPC. The security groups should allow outbound connections.

Environment Variables

Environment Variables in Build Environments

Build Specification

Build Spec

How the Build is Triggered

The build can be triggered manually from the console: Code Build -> Build projects -> select the project -> Start Build.

The build can be triggered programmatically How?.

The build can be triggered by a repository push.