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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

CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation is an IaC service provided by Amazon to help provision a required infrastructure. In CloudFormation, we create a template that describes all the AWS resources we need (such as Amazon EC2 instances, a security group, and a key pair), and CloudFormation will create those resources for us and configure as per the instructions provided in the template.

CloudFormation helps us to simplify our resource management, which can be easily repeated, and changes can be tracked and versioned.

Let’s try understanding the concepts related to CloudFormation.

Template

In order to create resources in an AWS environment, you need to define them in a descriptive document, which is known as a template.

A CloudFormation template is a JSON/YAML-formatted text document, which you can save with a .json, .yaml, .template, or .txt extension. These text files are used to define the different resources and configurations you need to create them in your environment...