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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)
1
Section 1:Basic CI/CD and Policy as Code
5
Section 2:Chaos Engineering and EKS Clusters
9
Section 3:DevSecOps and AIOps

Chapter 4: Working with AWS EKS and App Mesh

In this chapter, we will understand the architecture of an AWS EKS cluster and how it's different from a self-deployed Kubernetes cluster. Then, we will create a single Node EKS cluster. After that, we will understand the need for a service mesh and install AWS App Mesh. We will deploy a sample polyglot application to implement and understand features such as traffic routing and mutual TLS authentication and use the X-Ray service to trace the communication between individual services. This chapter will make you confident in deploying and managing a service mesh on an EKS cluster.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main sections:

  • Deep diving into AWS EKS
  • Deploying an EKS cluster
  • Introducing AWS App Mesh
  • Implementing traffic management
  • Getting observability using X-Ray
  • Enabling mTLS authentication between services