Approve or reject an approval action in CodePipeline - AWS CodePipeline
Approve or reject an approval action (console)Approve or reject an approval request (CLI)

Approve or reject an approval action in CodePipeline

When a pipeline includes an approval action, the pipeline execution stops at the point where the action has been added. The pipeline won't resume unless someone manually approves the action. If an approver rejects the action, or if no approval response is received within seven days of the pipeline stopping for the approval action, the pipeline status becomes "Failed."

If the person who added the approval action to the pipeline configured notifications, you might receive an email with the pipeline information and status for approval.

Approve or reject an approval action (console)

If you receive a notification that includes a direct link to an approval action, choose the Approve or reject link, sign in to the console, and then continue with step 7 here. Otherwise, follow all of these steps.

  1. Open the CodePipeline console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/.

  2. On the All Pipelines page, choose the name of the pipeline.

  3. Locate the stage with the approval action. Choose Review.

    The Review dialog box displays. The Details tab shows the review content and comments.

    The Details tab shows the review content and comments.

    The Revisions tab shows the source revisions for the execution.

    TThe Revisions tab shows the source revisions for the execution.

  4. On the Details tab, view the comments and URL, if any. The message also displays the URL of content for you to review, if one was included.

  5. If a URL was provided, choose the URL for review link in the action to open the target webpage, and then review the content.

  6. In the Review window, enter review comments, such as why you are approving or rejecting the action, and then choose Approve or Reject.

  7. Choose Submit.

Approve or reject an approval request (CLI)

To use the CLI to respond to an approval action, you must first use the get-pipeline-state command to retrieve the token associated with latest execution of the approval action.

  1. At a terminal (Linux, macOS, or Unix) or command prompt (Windows), run the get-pipeline-state command on the pipeline that contains the approval action. For example, for a pipeline named MyFirstPipeline, enter the following:

    aws codepipeline get-pipeline-state --name MyFirstPipeline

  2. In the response to the command, locate the token value, which appears in latestExecution in the actionStates section for the approval action, as shown here:

    {
    "created": 1467929497.204,
    "pipelineName": "MyFirstPipeline",
    "pipelineVersion": 1,
    "stageStates": [
        {
            "actionStates": [
                {
                    "actionName": "MyApprovalAction",
                    "currentRevision": {
                        "created": 1467929497.204,
                        "revisionChangeId": "CEM7d6Tp7zfelUSLCPPwo234xEXAMPLE",
                        "revisionId": "HYGp7zmwbCPPwo23xCMdTeqIlEXAMPLE"
                    },
                    "latestExecution": {
                        "lastUpdatedBy": "identity",
                        "summary": "The new design needs to be reviewed before release.",
                        "token": "1a2b3c4d-573f-4ea7-a67E-XAMPLETOKEN"
                    }
                }
//More content might appear here
}

  3. In a plain-text editor, create a file where you add the following, in JSON format:

    • The name of the pipeline that contains the approval action.

    • The name of the stage that contains the approval action.

    • The name of the approval action.

    • The token value you collected in the previous step.

    • Your response to the action (Approved or Rejected). The response must be capitalized.

    • Your summary comments.

    For the preceding MyFirstPipeline example, your file should look like this:

    {
  "pipelineName": "MyFirstPipeline",
  "stageName": "MyApprovalStage",
  "actionName": "MyApprovalAction",
  "token": "1a2b3c4d-573f-4ea7-a67E-XAMPLETOKEN",
  "result": {
    "status": "Approved",
    "summary": "The new design looks good. Ready to release to customers."
  }
}

  4. Save the file with a name like approvalstage-approved.json.

  5. Run the put-approval-result command, specifying the name of the approval JSON file, similar to the following:

    Important

    Be sure to include file:// before the file name. It is required in this command.

    aws codepipeline put-approval-result --cli-input-json file://approvalstage-approved.json