[conorgil145]

I have the same opinion after reading over the product page and glancing at the documentation.

At my org, we currently use a very similar method of deployment that AWS CodeDeploy seems to provide, except that we wrote it in house and use some python fabric scripts to do it. It sounds like AWS CodeDeploy would help us to "AWSify" this method of deployment and also have some nice benefits of health checks/rollbacks, UI based management, and a deployment history log. However, we would essentially still be maintaining/writing bash/python scripts to do the heavy lifting.

However, we are in the process of moving to a method of deployment which uses SaltStack to prebake an AMI with everything that is required to run in production and then use Netflix's Asgard to manage the deployment of the prebuilt AMIs. We are very excited about this method of managing deployments to take advantage of AutoScaling groups and using a well defined/tested stack of tools.

Interested to hear thoughts from others using a deployment approach that they think would benefit from AWS CodeDeploy.