Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment and the Agile methodology have enabled huge advances in modern applications. This book will enable the reader to make use of these rapidly evolving technologies to build highly scalable applications within AWS using different architectures.
You will begin by installing the AWS SDK and will then get hands-on experience of creating an application using the AWS Management Console and the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). Next, you will be integrating Applications with AWS services such as DynamoDB, Amazon Kinesis, AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, and Amazon SWF.
Following this, you will get well versed with CI/CD workflow and work with four major phases in the release processes—Source, Build, Test, and Production. Next, you will learn to apply AWS Developer tools in your Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) workflow. Later, you will learn about user authentication using Amazon Cognito and also how you can evaluate the best architecture as per your infrastructure costs. You will learn about Amazon EC2 and deploy an app using it. You will also get well versed with container service, which is Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS), and you will learn how to deploy an app using it. Along with EC2 and ECS, you will also deploy a practical real-world example of a CI/CD application with the Serverless Application Framework, which is known as AWS Lambda. Finally, you will learn how to build, develop, and deploy an application using AWS Developer tools such as AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline as per your project needs. You will also be able to develop and deploy applications within minutes using AWS CodeStar from the wizard.
By the end of this book, you will be able to effectively build, deploy, and manage applications on AWS along with scaling and securing applications with best practices and troubleshooting tips.
This book targets developers who would like to build and manage web and mobile applications and services on the AWS platform. If you are an architect, you will be able to deep dive and use examples that can be readily applied to real-world scenarios. Some prior programming experience is assumed, along with familiarity with cloud computing.
Chapter 1, AWS Tools and SDKs, introduces the AWS SDK and covers installation and the programming languages that are supported. The reader will get hands-on experience of creating an application. This chapter also covers SDKs for IoT devices and mobiles.
Chapter 2, Integrating Applications with AWS Services, covers how to integrate applications with AWS services such as DynamoDB, Amazon Kinesis, AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, and Amazon SWF.
Chapter 3, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Workflow, introduces the four major phases in the release processes—Source, Build, Test, and Production.
Chapter 4, CI/CD in AWS Part 1 – CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and Testing, explains how to apply AWS developer tools in your Continuous Integration (CI) and Continous Deployment (CD) workflow.
Chapter 5, CI/CD in AWS Part 2 – CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, and CodeStar, discusses other AWS Code family tools such as AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeStar, and AWS X-Ray.
Chapter 6, User Authentication with AWS Cognito, explains how to manage user authentication with AWS Cognito and also covers AWS Cognito service, which is a simple and secure user authentication for mobile and web applications.
Chapter 7, Evaluating the Best Architecture, covers traditional web hosting and web hosting on the cloud using AWS discussing, the best architecture for applications.
Chapter 8, Traditional Web Hosting – Amazon EC2 and Elastic Load Balancing, discusses Amazon EC2 best practices and troubleshooting. The chapter also covers about Elastic Load Balancing, auto-scaling, and fault-tolerant advanced topics. Finally, we will deploy an example of a CI/CD application using Amazon EC2 instances.
Chapter 9, Amazon EC2 Container Service, covers Docker, container instances, clusters, scheduling Ttsks, and Windows containers. Then, we will deploy an example of a CI/CD application with Amazon EC2 container services.
Chapter 10, Amazon Lambda – AWS Serverless Architecture, goes into more detail more about Microservices, Serverless Framework, how you can achieve serverless on the AWS platform using AWS Lambda, and you will learn how to deploy applications with the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM).
This book assumes that readers are already familiar with the basics of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and have some development background. It explains readers about Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) and how they are achieved on AWS using Developer tools. Readers will also learn about different architectures and implement CI/CD on these architectures. Some of the troubleshooting and cost optimization tips are really helpful to the users while using different AWS services. Users can use free-tier cloud providers wherever possible; certain services might cost a small amount of money.
From a hardware point of view, you can work on any modern computer running for any operating system supported by AWS.
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