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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 Amazon Elastic Container Registry?

Amazon ECR is a fully managed container registry for storing and sharing container images for reliable deployment. As a developer, you create your container images and push them to ECR, and later you configure ECS task definitions to pull your images from the ECR repository for deployment.

ECR is a serverless container registry, so you don’t have to provision or manage any servers to store your images. You only pay for the storage of your images, which makes it very affordable. ECR scales automatically to meet demand and provides end-to-end encryption so you can safely store and share images outside AWS as well. Your repositories are private, and you control access to images through the AWS IAM service.

In order to use ECS, we need to create an ECR repository, and later we will modify and publish our example aws-code-pipeline microservice as a Docker image to this ECR repository. Work through the following instructions to create...