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Building and Delivering Microservices on AWS

By : Amar Deep Singh
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Book Image

Building and Delivering Microservices on AWS

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By: Amar Deep Singh

Overview of this book

Reliable automation is crucial for any code change going into production. A release pipeline enables you to deliver features for your users efficiently and promptly. AWS CodePipeline, with its powerful integration and automation capabilities of building, testing, and deployment, offers a unique solution to common software delivery issues such as outages during deployment, a lack of standard delivery mechanisms, and challenges faced in creating sustainable pipelines. You’ll begin by developing a Java microservice and using AWS services such as CodeCommit, CodeArtifact, and CodeGuru to manage and review the source code. You’ll then learn to use the AWS CodeBuild service to build code and deploy it to AWS infrastructure and container services using the CodeDeploy service. As you advance, you’ll find out how to provision cloud infrastructure using CloudFormation templates and Terraform. The concluding chapters will show you how to combine all these AWS services to create a reliable and automated CodePipeline for delivering microservices from source code check-in to deployment without any downtime. Finally, you’ll discover how to integrate AWS CodePipeline with third-party services such as Bitbucket, Blazemeter, Snyk, and Jenkins. By the end of this microservices book, you’ll have gained the hands-on skills to build release pipelines for your applications.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Part 1: Pre-Plan the Pipeline
6
Part 2: Build the Pipeline
11
Part 3: Deploying the Pipeline

Building and Testing Using AWS CodeBuild

In this chapter, you will learn about the AWS CodeBuild service and how you can use this service to build your source code. In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • What is AWS CodeBuild?
  • The benefits of using CodeBuild
  • The limitations of CodeBuild
  • Understanding buildspec files
  • Integration with CodeCommit
  • Testing using CodeBuild
  • Build metrics
  • Build notifications
  • Build triggers
  • Local build support

In the previous chapter, we learned about the CodeArtifact service and how we generate the artifacts as part of the build process. Developers write code using the programming language of their choice. Once they are done, they need to merge the code to a central repository such as CodeCommit for integration. Once the changes have been merged, code needs to be built as well as tested to make sure that there are no compilation errors and all of the changes pass the unit tests. AWS CodeBuild...