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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

Understanding the different types of deployments

When you think about deployments, especially as we have been talking about the SDLC, you may think we are talking about application code. However, as you move to automate more and more of your systems in AWS, deployments can take on multiple meanings. Deployments can mean application code, but they could also mean infrastructure code, configuration code, or other layers.

There are five main types of deployment strategies to consider when dealing with deployments on AWS. Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages.

When choosing a deployment strategy, these are the main things you need to consider:

  • How quickly can you deploy?
  • Are any Domain Name System (DNS) changes needed?
  • Would there be any impact with a failed deployment?
  • What would the rollback process be?
  • Where would the code be linked to? (New or existing instances?)

With this in mind, let's look at the five different deployment...