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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 fully automated CI/CD pipeline in your AWS account

So far, we’ve established a conceptual understanding of how AWS services such as CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline work, and how they help you automate parts of your software delivery process. The biggest advantage of these services is that you don’t need to adopt a full-fledged solution. You can selectively offload specific areas of your software delivery process to one or more of these tools. Wiring them up with one another is also a seamless experience.

When a substantial number of workloads are running in the cloud, leveraging AWS native tooling for CI/CD can help a lot. Let’s see these concepts in action by rolling out an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline. In the previous chapters, we used an AMI with the application code in it. To better demonstrate the capabilities of the AWS services mentioned in this chapter, we will use a slightly different AMI. The new image will differ in two aspects...