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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
6
Part 2: Build the Pipeline
11
Part 3: Deploying the Pipeline

App deployment to EC2 instances

For the CodeDeploy service to deploy the aws-code-pipeline.zip file, we need to create an application in the CodeDeploy console to initiate deployment. To create a CodeDeploy application, follow the steps shown as follows:

  1. Log in to the AWS console and under the CodeDeploy service, click on the Getting started link in the left panel. Click on the Create application button to start creating a CodeDeploy application:
Figure 9.24 – CodeDeploy getting started

Figure 9.24 – CodeDeploy getting started

  1. Provide an application name and select the Compute platform type. In this case, we are going to deploy this application to the EC2 instances, so select EC2/On-premises and click the Create application button:
Figure 9.25 – CodeDeploy creates a new application

Figure 9.25 – CodeDeploy creates a new application

  1. The CodeDeploy application is successfully created; now we need to create the deployment group to which we can target the deployment. As we discussed...