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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

Programmatic Approach to IaC with AWS CDK

Infrastructure automation is key to supporting the scale and complexities of modern software applications. How quickly and reliably you can provision infrastructure stacks for these applications has a direct impact on the overall value chain. AWS offers lots of capabilities in this domain that might be attractive for different end user personas. Organizations typically get started with the AWS web console-driven experience to get their feet wet. Once they have a good foundational understanding of how all the blocks and pieces come together, they think of hosting some development workloads on the cloud. At this point, they start looking into different options to manage and automate the infrastructure these applications will be deployed on.

AWS services are built from the ground up, exposing APIs as the primary communication interface. As an AWS user, you are either into developing CLIs and SDKs that consume these APIs as is, or you are an...