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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

Experimenting with AWS FIS on RDS with a reboot and failover action

In this section of the chapter, we will create an FIS experiment template that will invoke an API call to reboot a database cluster with failover. In failover, the read-only replica will be promoted as the primary instance (the cluster writer), and you can also see that the availability zone in use will also change. We will validate by reviewing the availability of the application during the reboot and failover of MySQL RDS. We will deploy an example Node.js REST API application with MySQL RDS.

Perform the following steps to implement the experiment using AWS FIS:

  1. Go to the RDS console and click on Create database.
  2. Select Standard create under Choose a database creation method. Select MySQL under Engine type.

Figure 6.34 – Choosing a database engine

  1. Under Templates, select Dev/Test, while under DB instance identifier, enter RDS-FIS. Complete the Master password...