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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification and Beyond

By : Adam Book
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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification and Beyond

By: Adam Book

Overview of this book

The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification is one of the highest AWS credentials, vastly recognized in cloud computing or software development industries. This book is an extensive guide to helping you strengthen your DevOps skills as you work with your AWS workloads on a day-to-day basis. You'll begin by learning how to create and deploy a workload using the AWS code suite of tools, and then move on to adding monitoring and fault tolerance to your workload. You'll explore enterprise scenarios that'll help you to understand various AWS tools and services. This book is packed with detailed explanations of essential concepts to help you get to grips with the domains needed to pass the DevOps professional exam. As you advance, you'll delve into AWS with the help of hands-on examples and practice questions to gain a holistic understanding of the services covered in the AWS DevOps professional exam. Throughout the book, you'll find real-world scenarios that you can easily incorporate in your daily activities when working with AWS, making you a valuable asset for any organization. By the end of this AWS certification book, you'll have gained the knowledge needed to pass the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer exam, and be able to implement different techniques for delivering each service in real-world scenarios.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
1
Section 1: Establishing the Fundamentals
7
Section 2: Developing, Deploying, and Using Infrastructure as Code
16
Section 3: Monitoring and Logging Your Environment and Workloads
21
Section 4: Enabling Highly Available Workloads, Fault Tolerance, and Implementing Standards and Policies
27
Section 5: Exam Tips and Tricks

Using AWS CodeBuild

AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed service that compiles source code, produces packages and container images, and runs tests. These steps are part of the continuous integration process, although not every project needs each of these steps. CodeBuild can also scale to meet your needs without any complex provisioning. Once you have configured the buildspec file and the job is initiated, CodeBuild will allocate the specified resources.

This is in contrast to other build systems, where you need to manually provision the compute for the workers or perform complex setups to ensure that autoscaling environments are available for heavy build and test periods.

You can run AWS CodeBuild as a standalone service, or it can be integrated with other services, such as CodeCommit and AWS CodePipeline, to create a repeatable, automated process that is part of your continuous integration life cycle.

Features to know about CodeBuild

The following are some of the features...