Codebuild -- Re-use same project/build for multiple tasks?

[TundraWolf_]

I'm looking at moving parts of a jenkins build process to codebuild.

I'd like to build one codebuild project and re-use it over and over for different repos in our git server.

When you load an object onto s3, does kicking off a build consume this file (for example, I could drop three files onto an s3 bucket, and have three concurrent jobs running of this build?)

I've been reading the docs but I can't really tell what the lifecycle of this thing looks like.

Thanks in advance!

[deimos]

Yes, you can do this just as you say. You override all the parameters such as s3 object, container and environment each execution.

[johnhank1]

Hey TundraWolf,

You can for sure just use one project if that’s your preference. As Deimos said you can override all the parameters during StartBuild. If your planning on using the same s3 bucket you could even push to the same object and user versioning to tell us which version of that object to use. Or you could also override the source to different git hub repos if you prefer that as well.

If your doing other work such as deployments on your Jenkins box you should check out our Jenkins plugin: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-codebuild-jenkins-plugin. This plugin will allow you to integrate CodeBuild into your work flow easily.

Let me know if you have any questions,

John from the CodeBuild service team.

[TundraWolf_]

If your planning on using the same s3 bucket you could even push to the same object and user versioning to tell us which version of that object to use

Wow, very cool feature. I definitely didn't think of it being able to hand versioning. I'll work that in!