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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)
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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 Jenkins to build your workloads

The developer tools provided by AWS can give you just about all the functionality that you need without any extra configuration or setup. There are instances where teams have already built parts of their Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) process around existing tooling and may want to retain some of the work that they have already poured time and effort into refining.

Teams that use the Jenkins server can be one of those cases. Along with its vast ecosystem of plugins, Jenkins can provide an extreme amount of functionality in the CI/CD process.

Many teams use Jenkins for the build stage of the CI process since, in Jenkins, it can feel easier to build the steps in shell scripts without a need to create additional buildspec files.

The following diagram depicts Jenkins being used in conjunction with CodePipeline:

Figure 9.12 – Using Jenkins in conjunction with CodePipeline

Jenkins itself...