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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)
1
Part 1: Pre-Plan the Pipeline
6
Part 2: Build the Pipeline
11
Part 3: Deploying the Pipeline

Account metrics

The Account metrics section provides graphical information about the usage of the CodeBuild service. It provides metrics related to the number of builds executed, build minutes used, and successful and failed build execution counts. Account metrics data is provided as time series, so you can adjust the time filter to examine metrics specific to a given time period:

Figure 8.34 – AWS CodeBuild usage metrics

Figure 8.34 – AWS CodeBuild usage metrics

Account metrics allow you to understand the overall build performance and see how much time on average your build executions are taking and how many builds are failing. Based on this data you can review the build steps to ensure that you are working efficiently and not using build minutes unnecessarily, as AWS charges you on the basis of build minutes used. AWS allows you to set up build notifications to get status updates for build executions. In the next section, we’ll see how to set up build notifications.