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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)
1
Part 1: Pre-Plan the Pipeline
6
Part 2: Build the Pipeline
11
Part 3: Deploying the Pipeline

Understanding a microservices architecture

Now that we have an idea of what a monolithic application is and what problems it causes, let’s focus on microservices and how these services solve the problem posed by a monolithic architecture.

A component of your entire application stack that focuses on a single capability and is deployed and managed separately is known as a microservice. Your entire application is a series of these microservices. A microservice is autonomous in nature and can be developed and deployed independently without causing service disruptions to other parts of the system.

Let’s take an example to better understand microservices. Suppose you have an e-commerce website where you sell online goods to consumers. In your application, you will have separate features or functions to support your business, such as vendor management, product catalog, order placement, billing, payment order confirmation, shipment, and delivery tracking. Each of these...