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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 6: Chaos Engineering with AWS Fault Injection Simulator

This chapter covers the concept of chaos engineering and when it is needed. It will walk you through the principle of chaos engineering and give insights in terms of where chaos engineering fits in concerning Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CD). We will implement chaos action on EC2 instances, the Relational Database Service (RDS), and the Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) worker node group via the AWS Fault Injection Simulator, and verify whether the infrastructure is fault-tolerant and the application still responsive. Performing this experiment will give you sufficient confidence to place this as part of CI/CD in your organization.

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

  • The concept of, and need for, chaos engineering
  • Chaos engineering in CI/CD
  • Experimenting with AWS FIS on multiple EC2 instances with a terminate action
  • Experimenting...