What I would do is to have roles for each system service that your application needs, a play and a role for each application/microservice, and group and/or host variables and role variables and defaults which define what to do.
I deploy a lot of PHP-based applications, so that looks a lot like this:
I'll have a play app_microservice.yml:
---
- hosts: app_microservice_servers
roles:
- nginx
- mariadb
- php-fpm
- app_microservice
So I'll have a role roles/app_microservice which deploys the code. When I run this play, the nginx, mariadb and php-fpm prerequisites will be installed and configured first, if they haven't already been.
In addition to calling roles, a play can also run arbitrary tasks. Feel free to mix and match these if something is simple enough that a full role isn't called for.
This play also goes into all.yml along with every other play, so that I can occasionally do ansible-playbook all.yml. Remember that ansible doesn't guarantee idempotence like puppet tries to, so this is something you have to be careful of.
- include: app_microservice.yml
I use group variables to define things which are common to a group (though there are precious few of these that won't fit in the role variables or defaults instead), group all variables for global stuff, and host variables for anything that's unique to a host.
For instance, I give a unique MySQL root password to every host, but I have SSL ciphers and protocols defined in group_vars/all/main.yml so that, if they need to be changed, there is one source of truth for them.
Best Answer
CodeDeploy does very little by default - it grabs the code from S3 or Github, then runs your scripts per the
appspec.ymlfile's instructions.If your deployments are grabbing gigabytes of data from S3, you'll find that takes some time for the data transfer (particularly on smaller EC2 instances with limited bandwidth), but other than that deployment delays are much more likely to be due to whatever you're doing in your deployment scripts.
The steps in a CodeDeploy deployment are:
The bolded ones are up to CodeDeploy, the others are up to you. If you're seeing varying delays in the bolded ones, contact AWS support, but otherwise chances are you need to investigate your hooks.