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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

Rolling Out a CI/CD Pipeline

For sustained growth, organizations are aiming to digitally transform their businesses. The need to deliver innovative features faster to the end consumer requires software automation, which is one of the key contributors to the digital transformation process. Increasing competition further results in sky-high expectations around the reliability, usability, and consistency of every new software feature that is released. So, software development practices need to adapt to meet or raise the high bar. On the other hand, at an organizational level, the need to deliver more often increases headcount. This leads to challenges around team collaboration, visibility, and confidence to roll out new features with the least effort.

CI/CD is a key component of the DevOps journey that solves these problems quite well. It has emerged as a time-tested approach adopted by organizations of different sizes, team models, and complex software architectures. By including...