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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By : Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta
Book Image

Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By: Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta

Overview of this book

With this Learning Path, you’ll explore techniques to easily manage applications on the AWS cloud. You’ll begin with an introduction to serverless computing, its advantages, and the fundamentals of AWS. The following chapters will guide you on how to manage multiple accounts by setting up consolidated billing, enhancing your application delivery skills, with the latest AWS services such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. It’ll also add to your understanding of the services AWS Lambda provides to developers. To refine your skills further, it demonstrates how to design, write, test, monitor, and troubleshoot Lambda functions. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • AWS Administration: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Yohan Wadia • AWS Administration Cookbook by Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan • Mastering AWS Lambda by Yohan Wadia, Udita Gupta
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Getting started with Elastic Beanstalk


In this section, we will be performing a deep dive into how to set up a fully-functional Dev and Prod environment for our simple WordPress application using Elastic Beanstalk. Before we get started, here is a list of some prerequisite items that you need to have in place before we can proceed:

  • A valid AWS account and user credentials with the required set of privileges to run the AWS CLI and the Elastic Beanstalk CLI.
  • A sandbox/Dev instance to download the WordPress installation and later use it to push the application code over to the respective Beanstalk environment. Note that you can also use other resources, such as a Git URL or an IDE, but for now we will be focusing on this approach.

Creating the Dev environment

Let's first start off by creating a simple and straightforward development environment for our WordPress site. To do so, execute the following steps:

  1. Sign in to the AWS Console and select the Elastic Beanstalk option from the Services filter...