Copilot and microservices/ multiple services

[Nikola-Milovic]

Hello everyone, I created an app, and it seems that it is rather difficult to work with multiple services? Besides not having any examples online, (besides the emoji app ), the pipeline and the buildspec is the same for all services? What if I have different requirements for different services? Like different testing setup, different build setup? Is there a way to build all of them seperately eg, keep them separate and still be able to control them from the copilot?

I am not sure I am missing something, as in the emoji app listed above, we have the project structure of

SRC
|-copilot
|- serviceA
|- serviceB

Where copilot has a single pipeline with codebuild file and that's it. Both services use the same pipeline and build.

[iamhopaul123]

Hello @Nikola-Milovic. You can have the following structure to have two separate pipelines for two services:

SRC
|- serviceA
  |- copilot
|- serviceB
  |- copilot

Where you run copilot app init twice in both serviceA dir and serviceB dir to create two workspaces respectively using the same app name. Then when you run pipeline init the pipeline should only include services within the current workspace. Please let me know if anything is not clear to you!

[Nikola-Milovic]

Most interesting! What is then shared between the services? Do I have to create an environment once?

I haven't seen this approach yet but it seems to be what I need. Thanks!

[iamhopaul123]

Yeah creating environments doesn't require any local changes so you can do it within either of these two workspaces.

[vlad-yanum-akveo]

When I tried to create a pipeline for one of the services, the corresponding files were generated under service root folder (e.g. copilot/buildspec, pipeline.jml)
However, the problem is that actual BUILD does not work:
/src/copilot/buildspec.yml: no such file or directory

So, Build engine is trying to find buildspec at the top root copilot folder (I do not have it, I do not need it)

Please help on how to proceed here?

[efekarakus]

Hi @vlad-yanum-akveo !

I'm trying to follow the steps taken:

1. You ran copilot pipeline init and it created the copilot/buildspec.yml and copilot/pipeline.yml files

Were these files pushed upstream? The Build stage of the pipeline would need to have these files available in the remote for it to build.