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AWS Code Catalyst: A ‘Low-Code’ Approach for the Dev Lifecycle

Launched at the https://aws.amazon.com/?utm_content=inline-mention‘ https://thenewstack.io/aws-reinvent-left-attendees-with-more-questions/ this month, AWS’ CodeCatalyst aims to handle, in a low-code way, the entire software development cycle, ie building a repository, setting up logging, a CI/CD pipeline. Its purpose is to reduce “friction throughout the development lifecycle,” as AWS Developer Advocate https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-j-roberts/ summarizes in a https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-codecatalyst-preview-a-unified-software-development-service/.

It really helps you plan and develop and collaborate in different applications from AWS,” noted AWS Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels, during his keynote talk.

Rather than have developers use local development environments, CodeCatalyst uses a devfile (link) that defines the configuration in an on-demand cloud-based Dev Environment.

You can deploy to popular AWS services including Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), https://thenewstack.io/aws-lambda-is-a-step-towards-creating-a-new-normal/, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).