AWS Toolkit for Microsoft Azure DevOps is an extension for Microsoft Azure DevOps (formerly known as Visual Studio Team Services or VSTS). It contains tasks you can use in build and release definitions in Azure DevOps and Microsoft Azure DevOps Server (previously named Visual Studio Team Foundation Server) to interact with AWS services. AWS Toolkit for Azure DevOps is available through the Visual Studio Marketplace. See the Getting started topic for more information.
You can use these tasks in an Azure DevOps project or in an on-premises Azure DevOps Server environment. The available AWS tasks include the following.
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Deploys an application to Amazon EC2 instances. |
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Creates a new AWS CloudFormation stack or updates the stack if it exists. |
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Deletes an AWS CloudFormation stack. |
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Executes an AWS CloudFormation change set to create or update a stack. |
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Creates a new version of an application. |
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Deploys a new version of an application to an Elastic Beanstalk environment. |
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Pushes a Docker image to the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR). |
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Supports deployment of AWS Lambda functions for all supported Lambda language runtimes. |
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Builds, packages, and deploys a .NET Core AWS Lambda function or serverless application. |
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Invokes an AWS Lambda function with a JSON payload. |
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Runs a command using the AWS CLI. |
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Runs a PowerShell script that uses cmdlets from the AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell module. |
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Run a shell script using Bash with AWS credentials. |
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Downloads file and folder content from an Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket. |
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Uploads file and folder content to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket. |
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Sends a message to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) topic or to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) queue. |
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Updates a secret, optionally creating a secret if it does not exist. |
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Stores the value of a secret in AWS Secrets Manager into a secret build variable. |
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Reads one or more values from Systems Manager Parameter Store into build variables. |
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Creates or updates a parameter in Systems Manager Parameter Store. |
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Runs a Systems Manager or user-provided Command on a fleet of EC2 instances. |
What's in This Guide
The AWS Toolkit for Azure DevOps User Guide describes how to install and use the AWS Toolkit for Azure DevOps.
How to set up an AWS account and install the AWS Toolkit for Azure DevOps. Also how to set up AWS credentials for use in the tasks, which can be accomplished using service endpoints, environment variables, or Amazon EC2 instance metadata (for build agents running on Amazon EC2 instances).
Using the AWS Toolkit for Azure DevOps
Walk-through topics demonstrating how to use tasks in the AWS Toolkit for Azure DevOps in your build and release definitions.
Describes the tasks included in the AWS Toolkit for Azure DevOps.
