How to auto deploying git repositories with submodules on AWS?

Question

I have a submodule in my git repository and my directory structure is like,

app
  -- folder1
  -- folder2
  -- submodule @5855

I have deployed

Answer 1

Borrowing from the concepts of @MattBucci and @JoshuaEvans. Here is what we did. We could not install git in our pipeline, because of strict access/security issues with ssh. So we ended up doing this thru HTTP instead.

1. I created a new Github Personal Access Token
2. I stored the PAT in the AWS Secrets manager as a SecureString. This doesn't actually change anything within CodeBuild, since it's smart enough to just know how to decrypt the key
3. I gave the "codebuild" role to read from Secrets manager
4. I made my buildspec.yml file, using a bunch of the commands suggested by @matt-bucci and @JoshuaEvans, as well as some new ones

version: 0.2
env:
    variables:
      token: " token "
    secrets-manager:
      personalAccessToken: $personalAccessTokenPath
phases:
    install:
      runtime-versions:
        nodejs: 12
      commands:
          - cd 
          - wget --header="Authorization:$token$personalAccessToken" --content-disposition  https://github.com/uri/zipball/$branch/
          - unzip project*.zip -d project-folder
          - rm -rf project*.zip
          - cd project-folder
          - mv project*/* .
          - rm -rf project*
          - cd 
    pre_build:
      commands:
        - xxx
    build:
      commands:
        - xxx
    post_build:
      commands:
        - xxx
artifacts:
    files:
      - '**/*'
    base-directory: dist

Hope this helps!