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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

Configuring the Inspector agent both manually and automatically

The Amazon Inspector agent can be installed on your target in one of three ways. The first way is to install the agent manually, which includes logging on to the target instance. The second way is to use SSM and take advantage of the run command feature to automatically install the Inspector agent on the instances in which we want the Inspector service to look for vulnerabilities. The third way is to incorporate a simple script into the user data so that the agent will be installed during the launch of the instance. These three methods are depicted in the following diagram:

Figure 21.3 – Three ways to install the Inspector agent

Now that we have seen how to install the agent, let's go through the exercise of spinning up some instances and using Systems Manager to install the agent.

Using Amazon Inspector hands-on

In the following hands-on exercise, we are going to launch two...