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

Local build support

Whenever you make changes to your buildspec.yml file, you have to commit it to the repository and start the CodeBuild job. This creates a lot of overhead for developers and increases the build minute costs for projects. To overcome this, CodeBuild supports local builds through CodeBuild agents. To set up your local environment to test the buildspec.yml file, implement the following steps:

  1. As a first step, you need to download the Docker image for the CodeBuild runtime selected for your build project in the previous section. You can pull these images from the AWS Docker registry as shown below or you can build these images yourself by cloning the source from the AWS CodeBuild Git repository at https://github.com/aws/aws-codebuild-docker-images.git. Here, we are focusing on using the existing Docker image. To install Docker locally, follow the instructions from Appendix, Docker Desktop Installation, where we have provided a step-by-step guide. Execute the...