Book description
Scale gracefully and maintain outstanding performance with your AWS-based infrastructure using DevOps principles
About This Book
Implement DevOps principles to take full advantage of the AWS stack and services
Take expert look at solving problems faced by real developers and operation teams and learn to overcome them
Learn from expert insights of the author who has worked with Silicon Valley’s most high-profile companies
Who This Book Is For
This book is for developers, DevOps engineers and teams who want to build and use AWS for their software infrastructure. Basic computer science knowledge is required for this book.
What You Will Learn
Find out what it means to practice DevOps and what its principles are
Build repeatable infrastructures using templates and configuration management
Deploy multiple times a day by implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
Use the latest technologies, including containers and serverless computing, to scale your infrastructure
Collect metrics and logs and implement an alerting strategy
Make your system robust and secure
In Detail
The DevOps movement has transformed the way modern tech companies work. AWS which has been on the forefront of the Cloud computing revolution has also been a key contributor of this DevOps movement creating a huge range of managed services that help you implement the DevOps principles.
In this book, you’ll see how the most successful tech start-ups launch and scale their services on AWS and how you can too. Written by a lead member of Mediums DevOps team, this book explains how to treat infrastructure as code, meaning you can bring resources online and offline as necessary with the code as easily as you control your software. You will also build a continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline to keep your app up to date. You’ll find out how to scale your applications to offer maximum performance to users anywhere in the world, even when traffic spikes with the latest technologies, such as containers and serverless computing. You will also take a deep dive into monitoring and alerting to make sure your users have the best experience when using your service.
Finally, you’ll get to grips with ensuring the security of your platform and data.
Style and approach
This is a practical, hands-on, comprehensive guide to AWS, helping readers understand AWS in a step by step manner.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Customer Feedback
- Preface
- The Cloud and the DevOps Revolution
- Deploying Your First Web Application
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Treating Your Infrastructure As Code
- Managing your infrastructure with CloudFormation
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Adding a configuration management system
- Getting started with Ansible
- Installing Ansible on your computer
- Creating our Ansible playground
- Creating our Ansible repository
- Executing modules
- Running arbitrary commands
- Ansible playbooks
- Running Ansible in pull mode
- Installing Git and Ansible on our EC2 instance
- Integrating Ansible with CloudFormation
- Monitoring
- Summary
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Adding Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
- Building a continuous integration pipeline
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Building a continuous deployment pipeline
- Creating new web servers for continuous deployment
- Integrating our Hello World application with CodeDeploy
- Building our deployment pipeline with AWS CodePipeline
- Summary
- Scaling Your Infrastructure
- Running Containers in AWS
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Monitoring and Alerting
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Instrumenting our application for monitoring
- AWS CloudWatch
- Using CloudWatch to monitor our helloworld application
- Advanced logging infrastructure with ElasticSearch, Kibana, and Firehose
- Monitoring our infrastructure
- Creating alarms using CloudWatch and SNS
- Summary
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Instrumenting our application for monitoring
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Hardening the Security of Your AWS Environment
- Understanding where to focus your effort
- Improving the security of the IAM layer
- Strengthening the security at the network level
- Protecting against targeted attacks
- Summary
Product information
- Title: Effective DevOps with AWS
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2017
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781786466815
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