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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

Setting Up an Automated Serverless Deployment

In this chapter, we will be focused on setting up CodePipeline for serverless deployment. This chapter will introduce you to serverless ecosystems and explain how AWS provides scalable solutions through the Lambda service. We will develop a sample Lambda function and set up automated CodePipeline for Lambda deployment. In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • What is a serverless ecosystem?
  • What is AWS Lambda?
  • AWS Lambda development
  • AWS Lambda manual deployment
  • AWS Lambda pipeline setup

In the previous chapter, we learned about the AWS CodePipeline service and showed you how you can deploy a microservice to Elastic Container Service (EC2) and EC2-based instances in an automated way. In this chapter, we will discuss how you can automate the delivery of AWS Lambda functions using AWS CodePipeline. But before we start talking about Lambda functions, we need to understand what serverless is in...