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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

Available OpsWorks platforms

OpsWorks, by its nature, is a configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet. Both of these software packages are industry-recognized automation platforms that enable you to use code and configure your servers via automation.

Now let's take a look at the three platforms that OpsWorks offers in a bit more depth.

OpsWorks Stacks

The original service offering from OpsWorks was OpsWorks Stacks. By using layers, it helps you manage and organize your EC2 instances.

OpsWorks for Chef Automate

If you have a team that is well versed in the creation of Chef cookbooks and knows how to use some of the more advanced features of Chef, such as Knife, yet doesn't want to deal with the hassles and headaches of maintaining their own Chef servers, then Chef Automate can be a logical choice for your team.

If you are currently using Chef to manage some of your on-premises infrastructure, OpsWorks for Chef...