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AWS Automation Cookbook

By : Nikit Swaraj
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Book Image

AWS Automation Cookbook

5 (1)
By: Nikit Swaraj

Overview of this book

AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodeBuild, and CodePipeline are scalable services offered by AWS that automate an application's build and deployment pipeline. In order to deliver tremendous speed and agility, every organization is moving toward automating their entire application pipeline. This book will cover all the AWS services required to automate your deployment to your instances. You'll begin by setting up and using one of the AWS services for automation –CodeCommit. Next, you'll learn how to build a sample Maven and NodeJS application using CodeBuild. After you've built the application, you'll see how to use CodeDeploy to deploy the application in EC2/Auto Scaling. You'll also build a highly scalable and fault tolerant Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Deployment (CD) pipeline using some easy-to-follow recipes. Following this, you'll achieve CI/CD for a microservice application and reduce the risk within your software development life cycle globally. You'll also learn to set up an infrastructure using CloudFormation templates and Ansible, and see how to automate AWS resources using AWS Lambda. Finally, you'll learn to automate instances in AWS and automate the deployment lifecycle of applications. By the end of this book, you'll be able to minimize application downtime and implement CI/CD, gaining total control over your software development lifecycle.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Understanding the inside content of helper files (BuildSpec.yml, Dockerfile, and CF template)

In this recipe, we will see and understand what's there inside the helper files. We will analyze the flow of the BuildSpec.yml file and how it is basically creating image of the application and pushing it to ECR. Post that, we will understand Dockerfile. Then, we will understand how CloudFormation carries out its magic. Post that, we will update the helper files with our resource name.

How to do it...

The build stage of CodePipeline is integrated with CodeBuild, and here Codebuild is using BuildSpec.yml as the build command reference file. CodeBuild will pull the latest application code in the build environment, and then create...