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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By : Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta
Book Image

Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By: Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta

Overview of this book

With this Learning Path, you’ll explore techniques to easily manage applications on the AWS cloud. You’ll begin with an introduction to serverless computing, its advantages, and the fundamentals of AWS. The following chapters will guide you on how to manage multiple accounts by setting up consolidated billing, enhancing your application delivery skills, with the latest AWS services such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. It’ll also add to your understanding of the services AWS Lambda provides to developers. To refine your skills further, it demonstrates how to design, write, test, monitor, and troubleshoot Lambda functions. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • AWS Administration: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Yohan Wadia • AWS Administration Cookbook by Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan • Mastering AWS Lambda by Yohan Wadia, Udita Gupta
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. Transforming Application Development Using the AWS Code Suite

In the previous chapter, we explored a few interesting and really useful enhancements made to the AWS Identity and Access Management Service (IAM) along with a quick deep dive into AWS Organizations as well.

In this chapter, we will be learning and exploring three extremely useful and powerful services provided by AWS that are specially catered toward enhancing a developer's experience with continuous code deployments: AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline!

Keeping this in mind, let's have a quick look at the various topics that we will be covering in this chapter:

  • Introducing AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline along with each service's concepts and internal workings
  • Creating your first CodeCommit repository and uploading an application to it
  • Running basic Git commands against your new code repository
  • Configuring the CodeDeploy agent on an EC2 instance
  • Leveraging the AppSpec file for configuring...