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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification and Beyond

By : Adam Book
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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification and Beyond

By: Adam Book

Overview of this book

The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification is one of the highest AWS credentials, vastly recognized in cloud computing or software development industries. This book is an extensive guide to helping you strengthen your DevOps skills as you work with your AWS workloads on a day-to-day basis. You'll begin by learning how to create and deploy a workload using the AWS code suite of tools, and then move on to adding monitoring and fault tolerance to your workload. You'll explore enterprise scenarios that'll help you to understand various AWS tools and services. This book is packed with detailed explanations of essential concepts to help you get to grips with the domains needed to pass the DevOps professional exam. As you advance, you'll delve into AWS with the help of hands-on examples and practice questions to gain a holistic understanding of the services covered in the AWS DevOps professional exam. Throughout the book, you'll find real-world scenarios that you can easily incorporate in your daily activities when working with AWS, making you a valuable asset for any organization. By the end of this AWS certification book, you'll have gained the knowledge needed to pass the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer exam, and be able to implement different techniques for delivering each service in real-world scenarios.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
1
Section 1: Establishing the Fundamentals
7
Section 2: Developing, Deploying, and Using Infrastructure as Code
16
Section 3: Monitoring and Logging Your Environment and Workloads
21
Section 4: Enabling Highly Available Workloads, Fault Tolerance, and Implementing Standards and Policies
27
Section 5: Exam Tips and Tricks

Deployments in OpsWorks

When you deploy an app in OpsWorks, its primary purpose is to deploy the application code and all of the files to the server instances. We previously created a stack, a layer, and an instance in OpsWorks. Now we will add an app and make a deployment to the stack:

  1. Return to the OpsWorks Console and enter back into the stack we had previously created – named chapt-10. You can enter the stack by clicking on the stack name.
  2. Once inside the stack, on the left-hand menu, click on the item named Apps to be taken to the apps page. At the top of this page, click on the blue button labeled Add App to create a new app:

    Figure 10.14 – Apps and Deployments in the left-hand menu in OpsWorks

  3. Use the following values to populate your app:

    All other values can be left blank. After you have filled...