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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

Summary

We started this chapter by identifying the need for a multi-account structure and the benefits it provides when hosting multiple workloads in AWS. Multiple services, solutions, and deployment frameworks fulfill a certain need, but it’s important to understand that they are not going to help you just on their own. Some level of customization is always needed for organizations to implement their specific needs. With the needs and benefits clarified, we moved on to key considerations that you should have when designing a Landing Zone concept. We also looked at some best practices in the areas of multi-account structure, security and IAM, DevOps and Config management, and operations.

Toward the second half of this chapter, we took a deeper look into how AWS Control Tower works under the hood, and out-of-the-box integrations with the CfCT solution. One of the key benefits that customers get from these solutions is that they are supported by AWS, just as they would support...