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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)

Automation with Ansible

If you are a DevOps or a System Administrator, who wants to be a DevOps, then you must know at least one configuration management technology. Ansible is one of the most popular configuration management tool, which can perform configuration changes at the server level, as well as it is good for infrastructure automation.

Ansible is a simple, agentless, and powerful open source IT automation tool. It has the following functionality:

  • Provisioning
  • Configuration management
  • Application deployment
  • Continuous delivery
  • Orchestration

Ansible is associated with Open Source leader Red Hat Inc. So, it has very fast growth in terms of development and pull request. Ansible has the following features:

  • Agentless: To run the Ansible playbook (configuration or template) on a destination server, you don't need any agent to be installed.
  • Need only SSH and Python: Ansible...