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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

4 (1)
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

What is a VCS?

A VCS is software available to developers to manage and share source code. These systems are centrally hosted and provide storage, backup, and versioning of source code through a graphical user interface or a set of text commands.

A VCS keeps track of the changes made by each developer, making changes traceable, allowing them to be compared against previous versions, and making it possible to revert to those previous versions of the source code if a mistake is discovered. The following sections cover some of the benefits provided by VCS in more detail.

Traceability

Traceability provides insights into the changes made to files over a period of time by different individuals. It gives information about what has been changed since the original version and who made those changes. Traceability helps to audit the changes on a file.

History

VCSs provide the valuable documented history of a file. This helps us find out who edited the file and what date and time...