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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

Deploying EC2 instances with Auto Scaling

The best way to get a full understanding of a service is to jump in hands-on to see how it performs, and the Auto Scaling service is no different. In this hands-on exercise, we will create a launch template for our ASG. We will then create an ASG. Follow these next steps:

  1. Log on to the Amazon Management Console using your administrative user account. Once logged in, navigate to the EC2 service. Once on the EC2 service, locate and click on the Launch Templates sub-menu item on the left-hand menu, which is located under the Instances menu heading.
  2. Once you are on the EC2 Launch Templates main screen, click on the orange Create launch template button in the main window.
  3. We should now be on a screen labeled Create launch template. Use the following values in the first box labeled Launch template name and the fields that come after this:
    • Launch template namechapter18
    • Template version descriptionversion 1
    • Auto Scaling...