Centralizing your cdk (ECS) pipeline in AWS

Build your pipeline in AWS tools account and your environment in workload account

Overview

In security conscious enterprises, there is a trend to centralize the security tools and integrate with your pipeline. As such, docker image that you build requires you to be scanned and stored in a central account before it be deployed into any workload account.

You may have already heard and worked with AWS cdk pipeline module which is an opinionated construct library. It does not utilize the AWS CodeDeploy…