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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

Installing and using the Elastic Beanstalk command-line interface (EB CLI)

There are a number of commands available from the AWS CLI that allow you, as a user, to take advantage of Elastic Beanstalk.

Basic commands supplied by the EB CLI include those that will do things all the way from creating the correct project structure in your local environment to quickly and efficiently pulling down the log files from your instances for review. We will now review the basic commands that the EB CLI provides, along with a short description of their nature, as follows:

  • eb create: This command will create a new local environment for Elastic Beanstalk and deploys an initial application version to that directory structure.
  • eb status: This command returns the status of your environment, including items such as application name, region, CNAME, and health status.
  • eb health: This command returns the health status of the instances in your environment, updating every 10 seconds.
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