Move CodeBuild Sources & Artifacts to a separate package

[skinny85]

According to what we agreed to in #1743, we need to move CodeBuild's Sources and Artifacts to a separate package.

We should also make a decision whether we should have 2 new packages: one for Sources, one for Artifacts, or should we put both Sources and Artifacts in one new package.

[made2591]

Yes, I have some questions about this: I try to model a stack with a pipeline inside made of 4 step (GitHubSourceAction, CodeBuildBuildAction, S3DeployAction and a LambdaInvokeAction): the use case is a Github repo and a github webhook (also managed with CDK) that contains a static website hosted on s3. The pipeline run, build (jekyll build and put artifact in a transition bucket), deploy (unpacking the artifact to an origin bucket) and run a lambda (cloudfront cache invalidation) as a final step. Now I'm encountering some issue in defining the actions: the GitHubSourceAction should be fine. For the CodeBuildBuildAction I'm already encounering some issue: looking at the CodeBuildBuildActionProps interface it seems that only outputArtifactName is required other then CommonCodeBuildActionProps properties. But I cannot init an Artifact object because I don't have visibility of it. Do you have any suggestions about how to work with CodeBuildBuildAction? I'm working with codepipeline 0.28.0 and using already the aws-codepipeline-actions package

[skinny85]

Hey @made2591 ,

you need to have the GitHub source Action as a local variable, and use its outputArtifact property. Like this:

const sourceAction = new cpactions.GitHubSourceAction({
    actionName: 'Source',
    owner: 'skinny85',
    repo: 'test-code-build-deploy-spring-boot-project',
    oauthToken: cdk.SecretValue.secretsManager('my-github-token'),
    branch: 'webhook-test',
    outputArtifactName: 'SourceOutput',
});

And then in your CodeBuild Action:

new cpactions.CodeBuildBuildAction({
    actionName: 'CodeBuild',
    project,
    inputArtifact: sourceAction.outputArtifact,
}),

Hope this helps!

Thanks,
Adam

[made2591]

Thank you @skinny85 I will try it right now and let you now!

[skinny85]

We decided not to pursue this direction, instead opting to leave the sources and artifacts in the same package.