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I am beginner at using AWS .so i want to ask some questions about CodePipeline.

so all i know about CodePipeline ,that i can connect it to github repo to let my app updated automatically ... then when i am doing the steps something called build provider appeared (its optional) .. and when i skip it it says "Your pipeline will not include a build stage"

so why do i have to do a build provider when my project compiled and build successfully locally on my PC ,i know its an optional step ,so can i know what it do exaclty ?

Zeyad Alaa Eldin
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When you are automating your code deployment process you cannot build your code locally as its a manual process.

To Automate the process code-pipeline has a build provider which can build your code as n when required. So, that you don't need to checkout the code locally and build before deploying.

Atul Sharma
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  • thanks for fast responding that helped me alot ... so i got 2 build providers AWS codeBuild and Add Jenkins .. what is the deference between them ? – Zeyad Alaa Eldin Jun 04 '21 at 20:34
  • Jenkins is an alternate to AWS code-pipeline which can automate the process of building the code & deploying it. Build provider is the actual code builder Maven in case of Java which can actually compile the code & make a deployable package. – Atul Sharma Jun 04 '21 at 20:36
  • You can either use Jenkins or code-pipeline to automate the stuff. In case of Jenkins you need to configure maven yourself. But, with code-pipeline the build provider already has the maven preconfigured which can build your code. – Atul Sharma Jun 04 '21 at 20:37