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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

Implementing end-to-end software delivery with CodePipeline

CodePipeline is a continuous software delivery service that can be used to design, operate, and automate all the stages of your software processes – that is, developing code, building and testing the artifacts, and performing the final rollout in productive environments. The entire sequence of activities is orchestrated by this service. It shares artifacts from one service to the other, checks their execution status, integrates with external tooling, and introduces a visual model around the steps you take to make the code available to the end user. However, you need to know about a few constructs when working with this service.

Key constructs used by CodePipeline

If you have used GitLab CI/CD or Jenkins in the past, you might have come across the concept of pipelines. These pipelines are formed by putting together blocks of actions that you would want to perform on your code artifacts. You often isolate them to...