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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)
1
Section 1:Basic CI/CD and Policy as Code
5
Section 2:Chaos Engineering and EKS Clusters
9
Section 3:DevSecOps and AIOps

Deploying add-ons

In the previous section, we created a fully private EKS cluster, but to deploy an application or add-on, we need to understand and implement the following things:

  • Since this is a private EKS cluster, the cluster can only pull images from Amazon ECR via an endpoint. So, to deploy anything on the EKS cluster, we need to push the Docker images in ECR.
  • We need to set up IRSA via OIDC, which is an important component to configure the service account with permissions defined in the IAM role.
  • We need to install Cluster Autoscaler to scale the worker node in case the number of Pods increases, due to more traffic to existing Pods, and needs extra worker nodes to run on.
  • We need to configure the Amazon EBS CSI driver for the storage class, which manages the life cycle of Amazon EBS volumes for persistent volumes.

So, in this section, we will implement the preceding points in sequence.

Creating copies of container images in ECR

Since our cluster...