AWS CodePipeline Pipeline pattern-based discovery

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    Summary of AWS CodePipeline Pipeline pattern-based discovery

    The AWS CodePipeline Pipeline pattern-based discovery enables ServiceNow customers to automatically discover AWS CodePipeline pipelines within their cloud environments. This functionality is part of the Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns application and helps populate detailed AWS pipeline data into both CMDB and non-CMDB tables, supporting accurate configuration management and cloud resource visibility.

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    Key Features

    • Pattern Activation: The AWS CodePipeline discovery pattern is disabled by default and must be enabled to start discovery. Activation does not count as a customization, ensuring ongoing updates with new releases.
    • Discovery Prerequisites: Customers must verify AWS discovery prerequisites and ensure relevant resources are not listed in the Resource Inclusion List to avoid duplicate discovery.
    • Data Population: Discovery populates AWS CodePipeline pipeline data into two key tables:
      • Non-CMDB Table: The cmdbawscodepipelinepipeline table stores pipeline-specific details such as ARN, name, type, execution mode, and version.
      • CMDB Table: The cmdbcicmpresource table stores resource-level information including ARN, name, resource type set as AWS::CodePipeline::Pipeline, operational and install status.
    • CI Relationships and References: The pattern establishes relationships such as hosting links to AWS Datacenters and references between AWS CodePipeline pipeline records and cloud resources, enhancing configuration item (CI) context.
    • AWS Tag Discovery: Tags associated with pipelines are collected and stored in the cmdbkeyvalue table, linking tag keys and values to the corresponding cloud resource.

    Practical Impact

    By enabling this discovery pattern, ServiceNow customers gain automated, structured visibility into their AWS CodePipeline pipelines, ensuring pipeline configurations and statuses are accurately represented in the CMDB. This improves cloud asset management, supports operational oversight, and facilitates integration with other ITSM processes.

    Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns finds AWS CodePipeline Pipelines on your cloud environment. Discovering some of these resources may require updating to the latest version of the Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns application from the ServiceNow Store.

    Pattern-based discovery and mapping requirements

    Verify the AWS discovery prerequisites
    For more information, see the prerequisites section in Amazon AWS Cloud components discovery using patterns.
    Remove resources from the Resource Inclusion List table
    Verify that the relevant resource isn't listed in the Resource Inclusion List [sa_cloud_inventory_resource_whitelist] table to avoid duplicate discovery. For more information on removing resources from the Resource Inclusion List, see Amazon Web Services (AWS) Resource Inventory.
    Enable the relevant pattern
    The pattern for this service is disabled by default. Starting with Visibility Content version 6.28.0, activating or deactivating a pattern won't be considered a customization, and it will continue to receive updates. Patterns that were previously activated or deactivated will reset to the latest predefined version after upgrading while retaining the last active field value. For more information on enabling patterns, see Activate a disabled pattern.

    Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns application populates data in both CMDB and non-CMDB tables.

    Data stored in non-CMDB tables

    Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns application populates data in the non-CMDB table when running the Amazon AWS - CodePipeline Pipeline - Extended Inventory (LP) pattern.

    You can review the non-CMDB AWS tables by navigating to All > Configuration > AWS. You can also search the navigation filter for the specific pattern name.

    Table 1. AWS CodePipeline Pipeline [cmdb_aws_codepipeline_pipeline]
    Field Description
    Object ID [object_id] Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that uniquely identifies the pipeline.
    Name [name] Name of the AWS CodePipeline pipeline.
    Pipeline Type [pipeline_type] Type of the pipeline.
    Execution Mode [execution_mode] Execution mode of the pipeline.
    Version [version] Version number of the pipeline.
    Configuration Item [configuration_item] References the Cloud Resource [cmdb_ci_cmp_resource] table.

    Data stored in CMDB tables

    Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns application populates data in the CMDB when running the Amazon AWS - CodePipeline Pipeline - Extended Inventory (LP) pattern.

    Table 2. Cloud Resource [cmdb_ci_cmp_resource]
    Field Description
    Object ID [object_id] ARN that uniquely identifies the pipeline.
    Name [name] Name of the AWS CodePipeline pipeline.
    Resource type [resource_type] Type of resource. The value is set to AWS::CodePipeline::Pipeline.
    Operational status [operational_status] Operational status of the resource. Default value is Operational.
    Install Status [install_status] Install status of the resource. Default value is Installed.

    CI relationships

    The Amazon AWS - CodePipeline Pipeline - Extended Inventory (LP) pattern creates the following relationships and references to support AWS CodePipeline Pipeline discovery. References link to records in other tables and don't appear in the CI Relationship [cmdb_rel_ci] table.

    Table 3. CI relationships
    CI Relationship CI
    Cloud Resource [cmdb_ci_cmp_resource] Hosted on::Hosts AWS Datacenter [cmdb_ci_aws_datacenter]
    Table 4. CI references
    CI Field Referenced CI
    AWS CodePipeline Pipeline [cmdb_aws_codepipeline_pipeline] Configuration Item [configuration_item] Cloud Resource [cmdb_ci_cmp_resource]
    Key Value [cmdb_key_value] Configuration item [configuration_item] Cloud Resource [cmdb_ci_cmp_resource]

    AWS Tag discovery

    The Amazon AWS - CodePipeline Pipeline - Extended Inventory (LP) pattern collects tags and populates them in the Key Value [cmdb_key_value] table.

    Table 5. Key Value [cmdb_key_value]
    Field Description
    Key [key] Tag name.
    Value [value] Tag value.
    Configuration item [configuration_item] References the Cloud Resource [cmdb_ci_cmp_resource] table.