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AWS Automation Cookbook

By : Swaraj
5 (1)
Book Image

AWS Automation Cookbook

5 (1)
By: 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)

Understanding the architecture and workflow

Consider the following scenario:

We have a Maven-based Java application in a CodeCommit repository master branch (assume its the final, tested and latest code which is production ready). This application will get build by CodeBuild and then will be containerized. Once it will get containerized, it is then deployed on servers. The web servers are set up on AWS. As a part of the architecture, the servers are part of the ECS cluster and featured with Auto Scaling and serving under the load balancer. Every time a new feature is developed, we have to manually run the build and deploy the image in ECS. But don't you think that it will take more time to do this? We should automate it and leave the hurdles behind. Before that, let's see our web server infrastructure diagram.

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