CodeBuild 2019 or "How I built perl for less than 3 cents"

This is my second (or third) dalliance with AWS CodeBuild.  I think I'm starting to like it now though.  I recently wrote a bash script to compile a version of perl to create Lambdas as part of my Perl Lambda project.  My so-called `make-a-perl` script will instantiate an EC2, download the perl source code, compile it, zip it up and copy it to an S3 bucket.

I suspected I could use AWS CodeBuild to do all of the aforementioned operations, but did not want to descend down the CodeBuild rabbit hole once more.  But alas, the temptation was just too much!

AWS CodeBuild - HowTo

Amazon Web Services' CodeBuild is a managed service that allows developers to build projects from source.

Typically CodeBuild is used as part of your CI/CD pipeline, perhaps along with other AWS tools like CodeCommit, CodePipeline and CodeDeploy.

This blog will explore the use of CodeBuild to build the Bedrock project and update a yum repository.  Along the way I'll detail some of the things I've learned and the path I took to automating the Bedrock build.