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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

Getting observability using X-Ray

One of the main advantages of using a service mesh is to get observability of the communication between the services. It helps for troubleshooting as well as visibility purposes. The AWS X-Ray service is responsible for helping developers and DevOps engineers quickly understand how application services are performing. When it's integrated with AWS App Mesh, it makes for a more powerful analytical tool.

We use the X-Ray SDK to instrument our application code and share all the incoming and outgoing requests to the X-Ray daemon, which is running as the third container of the deployment. We already installed App Mesh with the X-Ray feature in step 4 of the previous section. We can see the service mapping by performing the following steps:

  1. Log in to the AWS console and go to the X-Ray service page.
  2. Click on Service map.

Figure 4.21 – Service map of Product Catalog application services in AWS X-Ray

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