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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)
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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

CodePipeline action types

CodePipeline is an orchestrator service that brings other services together to deliver your software end to end. CodePipeline provides integration with different tools to deliver the software, and these tools are organized by action types to cover the different aspects of the software delivery. Let’s learn about each of these action types in more detail and understand all the capabilities that CodePipeline provides.

The source action type

For any CI/CD pipeline, you need source code to build an artifact and deploy that to your environment. In AWS CodePipeline, the source action type lets you define integration with a version control system to download the source code to build an artifact. Let’s look at the different source code providers that CodePipeline provides out-of-the-box integration with:

  • Amazon S3: An Amazon S3 bucket can be used as a source code provider for CodePipeline. CodePipeline expects your source to be a single...