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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

What is CodeDeploy?

Deployment is the ultimate destination for any software so that it can start serving consumers. Previously, to deploy a software package, you would have to prepare a set of instructions that needed to be followed by the operations team and they performed the code deployment manually. Consistently following these manual instructions is not scalable and prone to error, and we may face several deployment failures followed by manual rollbacks.

The AWS CodeDeploy service automates the deployment part of the application. CodeDeploy is a managed deployment service that provides the capability to deploy software artifacts across different platforms.

AWS CodeDeploy automates the software deployment process to different types of infrastructures, including Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, and on-prem servers using CodeDeploy agents. AWS CodeDeploy makes it easy to automatically push newer versions of an application to your servers without causing downtime to the...