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Accelerating DevSecOps on AWS

By : Nikit Swaraj
Book Image

Accelerating DevSecOps on AWS

By: Nikit Swaraj

Overview of this book

Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) has never been simple, but these days the landscape is more bewildering than ever; its terrain riddled with blind alleys and pitfalls that seem almost designed to trap the less-experienced developer. If you’re determined enough to keep your balance on the cutting edge, this book will help you navigate the landscape with ease. This book will guide you through the most modern ways of building CI/CD pipelines with AWS, taking you step-by-step from the basics right through to the most advanced topics in this domain. The book starts by covering the basics of CI/CD with AWS. Once you’re well-versed with tools such as AWS Codestar, Proton, CodeGuru, App Mesh, SecurityHub, and CloudFormation, you’ll focus on chaos engineering, the latest trend in testing the fault tolerance of your system. Next, you’ll explore the advanced concepts of AIOps and DevSecOps, two highly sought-after skill sets for securing and optimizing your CI/CD systems. All along, you’ll cover the full range of AWS CI/CD features, gaining real-world expertise. By the end of this AWS book, you’ll have the confidence you need to create resilient, secure, and performant CI/CD pipelines using the best techniques and technologies that AWS has to offer.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1:Basic CI/CD and Policy as Code
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Section 2:Chaos Engineering and EKS Clusters
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Section 3:DevSecOps and AIOps

DevSecOps in CI/CD and some terminology

DevSecOps is the philosophy of adopting security practices along with the DevOps process. A security-focused, continuous-delivery Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is referred to as DevSecOps. DevSecOps draws on the lessons learned and best practices of DevOps in general. When DevOps ideals are applied to software security, security testing becomes an active, integrated element of the development process. Security has always been considered as a secondary plan, which is bad. Toward the completion of the SDLC, the information security (InfoSec) team frequently interacts with development teams. As noble as their objectives may be, discovering security flaws at the end of the SDLC may be annoying.

Why DevSecOps?

In a nutshell, we can state that without security, our technology-driven lifestyles would be jeopardized, hence it is critical to include it early in the SDLC. Cyberattacks have become one of the most serious concerns facing businesses...