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Effective DevOps with AWS - Second Edition

By : Yogesh Raheja, Giuseppe Borgese, Nathaniel Felsen
Book Image

Effective DevOps with AWS - Second Edition

By: Yogesh Raheja, Giuseppe Borgese, Nathaniel Felsen

Overview of this book

The DevOps movement has transformed the way modern tech companies work. Amazon Web Services (AWS), which has been at the forefront of the cloud computing revolution, has also been a key contributor to the DevOps movement, creating a huge range of managed services that help you implement DevOps principles. Effective DevOps with AWS, Second Edition will help you to understand how the most successful tech start-ups launch and scale their services on AWS, and will teach you how you can do the same. This book explains how to treat infrastructure as code, meaning you can bring resources online and offline as easily as you control your software. You will also build a continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline to keep your app up to date. Once you have gotten to grips will all this, we'll move on to how to scale your applications to offer maximum performance to users even when traffic spikes, by using the latest technologies, such as containers. In addition to this, you'll get insights into monitoring and alerting, so you can make sure your users have the best experience when using your service. In the concluding chapters, we'll cover inbuilt AWS tools such as CodeDeploy and CloudFormation, which are used by many AWS administrators to perform DevOps. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to ensure the security of your platform and data, using the latest and most prominent AWS tools.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Building a CI pipeline


Initially, working in a CI environment meant that developers had to commit their code in a common branch as frequently as possible, as opposed to working off a separate branch or not committing changes for weeks. This allowed for improved visibility of the ongoing work and encouraged communication to avoid integration problems, a situation that is commonly known as Integration Hell. As the toolset related to source control and build and release management matured, so did the vision of how code integration should look in an ideal world.

Nowadays, most effective engineering organizations will continue down the path of integrating early and often. They often use, however, a more modern development process, where developers are required to edit the code and, at the same time, add or edit the different relevant tests to validate the change. This drastically increases overall productivity; it is now easier to find new bugs as the amount of code that changes between merges...