Do you ever see those little images in the README.md file of an open-source package you love? Do you have an open source project you contribute to and want to indicate to those checking the project out that the latest build is succeeding or the tests are passing?

If so then you should check out AWS CodeBuild’s “Badge Url”. That URL points to an image that will get updated based on the status of the latest build of the project. Then you can add a little markdown to your readme that is as simple as this ![](<build badge URL>) which will make that badge show up. Be sure to set badge_enabled to true(That is the Terraform value. It would likely be cased differently if you do it without Terraform).

Additionally, this could be used internally to indicate to Project Managers or other interested parties the status of the CICD build/tests. It's nothing groundbreaking, but I thought it could be interesting.

Let me know if you have a better use case for this or have implemented it for one of your projects!