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Building and Delivering Microservices on AWS

By : Amar Deep Singh
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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
6
Part 2: Build the Pipeline
11
Part 3: Deploying the Pipeline

Beyond the basics of CodeCommit

We now have our microservice source code available in the CodeCommit repository. Now, let’s learn about more features provided by the CodeCommit Git repositories.

Creating branches

A branch in a Git system is a pointer to a snapshot of the changes. The following are the steps to create a new branch in a CodeCommit repository:

  1. In order to create a new branch in CodeCommit, click on the Branches link in the left panel. This will take you to a page displaying all of your existing Git branches. On this screen, click on the Create branch button:
Figure 5.18 – CodeCommit create branch repository

Figure 5.18 – CodeCommit create branch repository

  1. In the pop-up window that appears, enter a new branch name and specify a source to create the branch from. Then, click the Create branch button to create the branch:
Figure 5.19 – CodeCommit create new branch popup

Figure 5.19 – CodeCommit create new branch popup

  1. If successful, you should see your newly...