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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

4 (1)
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

What is AWS CodeBuild?

The process by which we generate an artifact is known as the build process. The AWS CodeBuild service provides a highly available and scalable build platform to compile source code, run test cases, and produce ready-to-deploy software artifacts.

AWS CodeBuild is a continuous integration (CI) service, allowing you to build source code at scale without provisioning any hardware – you only pay for what you use. CodeBuild allows you to build your code using prepackaged build environments. Alternatively, you can create your own custom build environments by uploading Docker images. AWS CodeBuild can run multiple builds simultaneously and you don’t have to worry about patching or scaling the infrastructure.

When you submit a CodeBuild job, the CodeBuild service runs it in a temporary container and discards the container after the job is completed. These containers are freshly created every time you submit a job. You can run multiple build jobs in...