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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

How to choose the best CI/CD solution for your needs

The time you invest in finding out the right set of tools is worth it. It can help your business move faster in ways that were not possible before. I recommend three factors that you should consider.

Integration with existing tools

It is not only about the software that end users would consume. Countless others might be in use already for things such as task management, paging, notifications, testing, and so on.

Ideally, the CI/CD tool should offer pre-built integrations so that you don’t have to invest time in writing glue code. When readymade integrations are leveraged, it leads to easier operations and spares you time that can be used for business differentiators. Disjoint processes lead to additional overheads around switching from one tool to another and dependency on manual steps affects agility.

When operating in the cloud, you can also think of gradually replacing the other solutions with cloud-native ones...