AWS Buddy: A Build Manager backed by an S3 bucket

What's AWS Buddy?

AWS Buddy is a command line tool that helps you use an S3 bucket as a simple build manager.

Usage

# install it (globally)
$ npm install aws-buddy -g

# use it (generates default config on first use)
$ buddy --help

# config it (you'll need to make some edits before this will work for you)
$ vi ~/.aws-buddy.json

Typical Workflow and S3 Directory Structure

build
    archive
    env
        dev
        stage
        prod

1. buddy push download remote build and upload it to dev.
2. buddy info display the status of all environments.
3. buddy promote --env dev copy build from dev to stage.
4. buddy promote --env stage --ver 1.2.0 copy build from stage to prod and put a versioned copy in the archive directory.

It's just a file mover! But the thought is that you can setup your deployments to pull from the corresponding environment directory.

Commands

• push : download remote build & upload to first environment (dev)
• push-local : upload local build to first environment (dev)
• promote : copies specified env build to configured promotesTo env. may also archive based on configuration. --env is required, --ver may be required. example: buddy promote --env stage --ver 1.16.1
• info : list the current status of each environment
• bucket : list the contents of the configured bucket

Config

After first run a config file will be generated into your home dir.

~/.aws-buddy.json

Note: You can specify a different config file by using the -f, --file options. This is useful if you want to use AWS Buddy with multiple different applications.

You will need to edit this file. Here is an example...

    {
        "awsRegion": "us-east-1",  // AWS S3 region
        "awsProfile": "user2"  // AWS Named Profile for alternate credentials - OPTIONAL (you will normally not need this)
        "bucket": "S3_BUCKET_NAME", // AWS S3 bucket name
        "buildFileName": "MyCoolAppBuild.zip", // build file name in S3
        "localBuildFile": "~/dev/MyCoolAppBuild.zip", // location of the local build file, used in the push-local cmd
        "infoFile": "info.json", // name of the meta file that is written to S3
        "archive": {
            "dir": "build/archive", // archive s3 dir
            "prefix": "MyCoolApp-", // archive file name prefix
            "suffix": ".zip"  // archive file name suffix
        },
        "remoteBuild": {
            "url": "http://buildserver.net/MyCoolAppBuild.zip", // url to download remote build, used in push cmd
            "user": "[email protected]",  // basic auth user
            "pass": "password-in-clear-fail",  // basic auth pass
            "localBuildFile": "~/temp/MyCoolAppBuild.zip" // location on local machine to save the downloaded build
        },
        // You can add additional environments or edit these.
        "environments": {
            "prod": {
                "label": "Production", // Display name
                "key": "prod", // must match hash key
                "order": 3,  // order lower goes first
                "dir": "build/env/prod",  // dir in s3
                "promotesTo": false,   // where does this env promote to
                "archiveOnPromote": true  // should we archive when an env is promoted to this env
            },
            "stage": {
                "label": "Stage",
                "key": "stage",
                "order": 2,
                "dir": "build/env/stage",
                "promotesTo": "prod",
                "archiveOnPromote": false
            },
            "dev": {
                "label": "Development",
                "key": "dev",
                "order": 1,
                "dir": "build/env/dev",
                "promotesTo": "stage",
                "archiveOnPromote": false
            }
        }
    }