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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
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Part 2: Build the Pipeline
11
Part 3: Deploying the Pipeline

Starting a build

When we start a build, the CodeBuild service is responsible for preparing the required infrastructure based on the configuration and environment type we specified during the build project creation. Once the build environment is ready, CodeBuild will execute the instructions we provided in the buildspec.yml file in different stages and publish the artifacts and required reports. To start the build process for the packt-aws-code-pipeline CodeBuild project we created earlier in this chapter, perform the following steps:

  1. Click on the Build projects in the left panel of CodeBuild and then select the packt-aws-code-pipeline project. Click on the Start build button and select Start now:
Figure 8.19 – packt-aws-code-pipeline start build process

Figure 8.19 – packt-aws-code-pipeline start build process

  1. Once you click on the Start now button, CodeBuild will start the build execution and take you to the build status page as shown in the following screenshot. You can see that a unique...