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Implementing DevOps on AWS

By : Vaselin Kantsev
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Implementing DevOps on AWS

By: Vaselin Kantsev

Overview of this book

Knowing how to adopt DevOps in your organization is becoming an increasingly important skill for developers, whether you work for a start-up, an SMB, or an enterprise. This book will help you to drastically reduce the amount of time spent on development and increase the reliability of your software deployments on AWS using popular DevOps methods of automation. To start, you will get familiar with the concept of IaC and will learn to design, deploy, and maintain AWS infrastructure. Further on, you’ll see how to design and deploy a Continuous Integration platform on AWS using either open source or AWS provided tools/services. Following on from the delivery part of the process, you will learn how to deploy a newly created, tested, and verified artefact to the AWS infrastructure without manual intervention. You will then find out what to consider in order to make the implementation of Configuration Management easier and more effective. Toward the end of the book, you will learn some tricks and tips to optimize and secure your AWS environment. By the end of the book, you will have mastered the art of implementing DevOps practices onto AWS.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Implementing DevOps on AWS
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Free Chapter
1
What is DevOps and Should You Care?
4
Build, Test, and Release Faster with Continuous Integration

Staying within the VPC


As tempting as it may be, try to avoid exposing your VPC resources, as this defeats the purpose. This is to say, instead of assigning public IPs to your EC2 instances, which might give you quick and easy access, use a designated ssh-gateway host (also known as a bastion or a jump host) to hop through.

You would assign a public (Elastic) IP only this single machine, ensure its security group is locked down to the static IPs of your home and/or work place, and use it to connect (say over ssh) to any other instances within your VPC.