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Accelerating DevSecOps on AWS

By : Nikit Swaraj
Book Image

Accelerating DevSecOps on AWS

By: Nikit Swaraj

Overview of this book

Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) has never been simple, but these days the landscape is more bewildering than ever; its terrain riddled with blind alleys and pitfalls that seem almost designed to trap the less-experienced developer. If you’re determined enough to keep your balance on the cutting edge, this book will help you navigate the landscape with ease. This book will guide you through the most modern ways of building CI/CD pipelines with AWS, taking you step-by-step from the basics right through to the most advanced topics in this domain. The book starts by covering the basics of CI/CD with AWS. Once you’re well-versed with tools such as AWS Codestar, Proton, CodeGuru, App Mesh, SecurityHub, and CloudFormation, you’ll focus on chaos engineering, the latest trend in testing the fault tolerance of your system. Next, you’ll explore the advanced concepts of AIOps and DevSecOps, two highly sought-after skill sets for securing and optimizing your CI/CD systems. All along, you’ll cover the full range of AWS CI/CD features, gaining real-world expertise. By the end of this AWS book, you’ll have the confidence you need to create resilient, secure, and performant CI/CD pipelines using the best techniques and technologies that AWS has to offer.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1:Basic CI/CD and Policy as Code
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Section 2:Chaos Engineering and EKS Clusters
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Section 3:DevSecOps and AIOps

Integrating Terraform Cloud with GitHub

In this section, we will dive deep into Terraform Cloud and how we can integrate it with GitHub.

Terraform Cloud

Terraform is an IaC tool available from HashiCorp. Terraform lets you define infrastructure resources as human-readable and declarative configuration files. Terraform supports multiple cloud platforms and comes with lots of provider plugins. It also maintains a state file to track resource changes. Terraform comes in three different editions – Terraform OSS, Terraform Cloud, and Terraform Enterprise. Terraform OSS is free and comes with basic features. Terraform Cloud has free and paid versions. And Terraform Enterprise is a paid service with additional features.

A chart showing the differences between the Terraform versions can be seen in Table 2.1:

Table 2.1 – Terraform version features

Terraform Cloud is a SaaS platform that manages Terraform executions in a reliable environment...