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AWS DevOps Simplified

By : Akshay Kapoor
Book Image

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

Key considerations in a Landing Zone

Creating a Landing Zone concept from scratch that will cater to all current and future organizational needs can be intimidating. Five areas are essential for all organizations, big or small, to build an AWS foundation that scales. We will discuss them in this section, starting with the multi-account structure.

Defining a structure for organizational units and accounts

At the core of your Landing Zone design is an account structure that enables an organization to move fast, enforce granular controls, establish isolation boundaries, and reduce blast radius, while remaining flexible to future changes. So far in this chapter, we have discussed quite a few areas that benefit from a multi-account structure. All of this aligns well with the AWS Organizations service offerings, which help you manage your entire AWS landscape under the same umbrella. It gives you organizational controls that are otherwise difficult to establish, and maintain, across...