Rollbacks

Monitoring the health of your canary allows CodeDeploy to make a decision to whether a rollback is needed or not. If any of the CloudWatch Alarms specified gets to ALARM status, CodeDeploy rollsback the deployment automatically.

Introduce an error on purpose

Let’s break the Lambda function on purpose so that the CanaryErrorsAlarm gets triggered during deployment. Update the lambda code in sam-app/hello_world/app.py to throw an error on every invocation, like this:

import json
import os

def lambda_handler(event, context):

    if os.environ.get("AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME"):
        raise RuntimeError("This will cause a deployment rollback")

    return {
        "statusCode": 200,
        "body": json.dumps({
            "message": "hello world",
        }),
    }

Note: This error condition is not covered by the unit tests, so the build will not fail.

Push the changes

In the terminal, run the following commands from the root directory of your sam-app project.

git add .
git commit -m "Breaking the lambda function on purpose"
git push