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AWS Automation Cookbook

By : Nikit Swaraj
5 (1)
Book Image

AWS Automation Cookbook

5 (1)
By: Nikit Swaraj

Overview of this book

AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodeBuild, and CodePipeline are scalable services offered by AWS that automate an application's build and deployment pipeline. In order to deliver tremendous speed and agility, every organization is moving toward automating their entire application pipeline. This book will cover all the AWS services required to automate your deployment to your instances. You'll begin by setting up and using one of the AWS services for automation –CodeCommit. Next, you'll learn how to build a sample Maven and NodeJS application using CodeBuild. After you've built the application, you'll see how to use CodeDeploy to deploy the application in EC2/Auto Scaling. You'll also build a highly scalable and fault tolerant Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Deployment (CD) pipeline using some easy-to-follow recipes. Following this, you'll achieve CI/CD for a microservice application and reduce the risk within your software development life cycle globally. You'll also learn to set up an infrastructure using CloudFormation templates and Ansible, and see how to automate AWS resources using AWS Lambda. Finally, you'll learn to automate instances in AWS and automate the deployment lifecycle of applications. By the end of this book, you'll be able to minimize application downtime and implement CI/CD, gaining total control over your software development lifecycle.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Introduction

Deployment is the activity that will make your software available, that is, ready for end customer or market. So basically when we have tested the code, the post building process, we will have the build artifacts, which we need to deploy to the production machine so that the latest feature should be available for the end users to use.

Deployment can be done manually as well as automatically. Sometimes, some enterprises keep this process manual, but most of the companies are automating it. Let's list out the benefits of automated deployment:

  • Less error prone and more repeatable: Manual deployments are error-prone because it involves human interference. It's obvious that sometime deployment engineers forget to perform important steps in a release accidentally, which leads to incorrect versions of software, or broken software will get deployed, which of course...