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AWS DevOps Simplified

By : Akshay Kapoor
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AWS DevOps Simplified

By: Akshay Kapoor

Overview of this book

DevOps and AWS are the two key enablers for the success of any modern software-run business. DevOps accelerates software delivery, while AWS offers a plethora of services, allowing developers to prioritize business outcomes without worrying about undifferentiated heavy lifting. This book focuses on the synergy between them, equipping you with strong foundations, hands-on examples, and a strategy to accelerate your DevOps journey on AWS. AWS DevOps Simplified is a practical guide that starts with an introduction to AWS DevOps offerings and aids you in choosing a cloud service that fits your company's operating model. Following this, it provides hands-on tutorials on the GitOps approach to software delivery, covering immutable infrastructure and pipelines, using tools such as Packer, CDK, and CodeBuild/CodeDeploy. Additionally, it provides you with a deep understanding of AWS container services and how to implement observability and DevSecOps best practices to build and operate your multi-account, multi-Region AWS environments. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with solutions and ready-to-deploy code samples that address common DevOps challenges faced by enterprises hosting workloads in the cloud.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1 Driving Transformation through AWS and DevOps
5
Part 2 Faster Software Delivery with Consistent and Reproducible Environments
9
Part 3 Security and Observability of Containerized Workloads
13
Part 4 Taking the Next Steps

Defining your observability strategy for workloads hosted in AWS

There is never a perfect observability strategy that can give you the most granular view of your systems at scale. Rather, it’s an ongoing journey that keeps evolving as you release new features and updates to your software application. You continue to adapt the observability stack by ensuring that it highlights the adherence to key business goals at any point in time. To kick off your observability journey on AWS, you could consider the following aspects.

Deploying an observability stack for a test application hosted in ECS

In Chapter 7, Running Containers in AWS, we saw how easy it was to run containerized workloads on AWS. We developed a To-Do List Manager application using the Python Flask framework and deployed it on Amazon ECS, with infrastructure components rolled out with CDK. By leveraging ECS’s Fargate deployment model, we were able to offload the management of underlying container nodes...