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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)

AWS CloudFormation and writing the CloudFormation template

AWS CloudFormation is a free infrastructure automation service provided by Amazon Web Services. This service helps the customer to set up their infrastructure on AWS, in an easy and automated manner. This service helps you spend less time on managing the resources and more time on focusing on your applications. You can create a CloudFormation template where you can put all the resources that you want to provision (for example, EC2, RDS, and so on) and submit it to the CloudFormation service. Then, this service will take care of provisioning those resources for you. You don't have to create anything and figure out what's dependent on what. There are a couple of scenarios where AWS CloudFormation can help.

Simplify Infrastructure Management: Let's say we have a scalable web application that might use EC2,...