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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

What is an artifact?

An artifact is a software binary or code that you package, which can be distributed or shipped as a single unit to be executed or can be used as a dependency for other software programs. For example, in our aws-code-pipeline sample application, which we developed in Chapter 3, we produced a JAR file (aws-code-pipeline-xxx.jar) as an artifact that can be executed as a Spring Boot application.

Similarly, in our application, we are using a bunch of Maven dependencies as we import those in our pom.xml files; those dependencies are the artifacts that get downloaded by Maven to build our application.

An artifact is a term used for the software package, and it can have different packaging types or extensions. For example, an Android mobile app will have an APK file as an artifact.

Now that we understand what an artifact is, we need to understand how to manage and store these artifacts effectively.