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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
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Part 3: Deploying the Pipeline

Automated Deployment to an EKS Cluster

In this chapter, you will learn about Kubernetes and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) provided by AWS for managing Kubernetes workload. First, you will get an overview of the Kubernetes platform and its components and architecture, and then we will learn how EKS service helps in managing the Kubernetes cluster. In this chapter, we will create an EKS cluster and then deploy our sample aws-code-pipeline application to EKS using CodePipeline.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Kubernetes – an overview
  • Kubernetes architecture
  • Kubernetes objects
  • What is EKS?
  • Deployment to an EKS cluster

In previous chapters, we learned about Docker containers and how Elastic Container Service (ECS) helps orchestrate and deploy Docker containers.

Similar to the ECS service, Kubernetes is another competing product to manage the complexity involving thousands of containers. Kubernetes works as an orchestrator...