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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

AWS Lambda pipeline setup

There are different ways you can set up a code pipeline to deploy Lambda functions for continuous delivery. In this example, we are going to use the AWS CLI to do so. In the last chapter, we learned how we can add several stages to our pipeline and use it for code scanning, testing, manual approval, and so on. Here, we will keep things simple and will have only two stages in the pipeline: one is for the source and the other one is for CodeBuild and the deployment of the Lambda function. Let’s start creating the pipeline by following these steps:

  1. As a first step to creating the pipeline for our project, we need to create the infrastructure and resources needed by the pipeline, such as the CodeBuild project, Lambda function, required roles for deployment, and so on. To create the required roles and resources, we have created a Terraform template. You can download the template from our GitHub repository here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing...