Possible Devops Pipeline

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1. Jenkins
   1. Pros
      1. Open Source
      2. Market leader for CI/CD
      3. Supports wide array of community plugins
      4. Portability, can change to other CSPs
      5. Possible with ECS: https://plugins.jenkins.io/scalable-amazon-ecs/
   2. Cons
      1. Limited by executors for parallel processing
      2. Needs to be live 24/7, including management of the underlying infrastructure
      3. Cost due to manpower spent and infrastructure to run CI/CD
      4. more complicated than code pipeline as it requires management of plugins
2. AWS Code Pipeline
   1. Pros
      1. Each pipeline runs independently
      2. manages codebuild and codedeploy to form "stages" in CI/CD pipeline
      3. On demand
      4. native to AWS, easier integration with AWS marketplace
      5. serverless, no need to manage server
   2. Cons
      1. vendor lock-in to AWS
      2. cost can go scale quite quickly https://aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/pricing/
      3. more complicated than github actions
3. Github Actions
   1. Pros
      1. Convenience, the code and CI/CD are all located on one platform
      2. each workflow runs independently
      3. Simple to build ci/cd pipeline https://github.blog/2022-02-02-build-ci-cd-pipeline-github-actions-four-steps/
      4. Email notifications for failed build are default
      5. Free for public repositories
   2. Cons
      1. cost, for private repos, Senzing will need to pay for runner minutes (https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-github-actions/about-billing-for-github-actions)
      2. key product risk, any attack to github could affect code and ci/cd pipeline
      3. may have occasional delays (https://www.githubstatus.com/history)
      4. not suitable for large complex repos that span over a few repositories, unless using monorepo
4. CircleCI
   1. Pros
      1. Simplest to setup
      2. easy UI to manage a large number of projects
      3. cheaper for private code repositories
   2. Cons
      1. poor documentation

[mahchiahui]

@docktermj @roncewind @jeffadair for your review