Implementing DevOps on AWS

Veselin Kantsev

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781786460141
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Entreprise Applications
• Index: Computer Science

Bring the best out of DevOps and build, deploy, and maintain applications on AWS

About This Book

• Work through practical examples and gain DevOps best practices to successfully deploy applications on AWS
• Successfully provision and operate distributed application systems and your AWS infrastructure using DevOps
• Perform Continuous Integration and deployment and fine-tune the way you deliver on AWS

Who This Book Is For

This book is for system administrators and developers who manage AWS infrastructure and environments and are planning to implement DevOps in their organizations. Those aiming for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification will also find this book useful. Prior experience of operating and managing AWS environments is expected.

What You Will Learn

• Design and deploy infrastructure as code within your AWS Virtual Private Cloud
• Implement Continuous Integration using AWS Services
• Configure EC2 instances using SaltStack
• Implement Continuous Deployment using Jenkins and the AWS CLI
• Collect important metrics and log data to gain more insight into infrastructure and applications
• Troubleshooting popular issues with some less known techniques using the AWS platform

In Detail

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.

Style and approach

This book is packed full of real-world examples demonstrating use cases that help you deploy DevOps best practices on AWS.

Implementing DevOps on AWS

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Implementing DevOps on AWS

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Author Veselin Kantsev	Copy Editor Safis Editing
Reviewer Madhu Joshi	Project Coordinator Judie Jose
Commissioning Editor Kartikey Pandey	Proofreader Safis Editing
Acquisition Editor Namrata Patil	Indexer Pratik Shirodkar
Content Development Editor Abhishek Jadhav	Graphics Kirk D'Penha
Technical Editor Mohd Riyan Khan	Production Coordinator Nilesh Mohite

About the Author

Veselin Kantsev is a DevOps professional and a Linux enthusiast who lives in London, UK.

His introduction to Linux was as a System Administrator back in 2006. His focus for the past few years has been mostly on cloud technologies and the transition of the community from an Ops to a DevOps culture.

He has worked with companies in various sectors such as Design, Media, and Finance, specializing in the migration of infrastructure onto AWS and the promotion of DevOps principles and practices.

About the Reviewer

Madhu Joshi, the VP of Cloud Services at Trillion Technology Solutions, has built high-profile websites in AWS for DoD, Verato, National Geospatial Agency (NGA), DHS FEMA, ProQuest Search Solutions, The Coca Cola Company, Food Network, Scripps, Special Olympics, Home and Garden TV, and Monumental Sports. He designed these sites to handle millions of visitors per month and has used industry best practices to provide peak capacity required to serve the global audience. He also has expertise in migrating large applications such as the KickApps social media platform and financial services from a traditional data center to Amazon's cloud.

I would like to thank Packt Publishing and Judie Jose for giving me the opportunity to review the book. This has turned out to be a great book, and I want to congratulate the author on putting on lot of hard work to make the book very useful. I am sure that the readers will have as much fun as I had reviewing it.

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Preface

DevOps and AWS are two key subjects in the tech industry that have been steadily growing in popularity in recent years and for a good reason.

DevOps is gradually becoming the de facto methodology or framework and is adopted by organizations of all sizes. It has enabled technology teams to work more efficiently and made their work more rewarding by tightening the feedback loop between the developer and the end user. Team members enjoy a more pleasant, more productive work environment through much increased collaboration.

In this book, we will first examine the philosophy behind DevOps, then proceed with some practical examples of its most popular principles.

AWS is nowadays synonymous with Cloud Computing, sitting at the top of the industry charts with its 31% market share. Starting back in 2006, Amazon Web Services has evolved into a large, independent, sophisticated ecosystem in the Cloud. It is and has been launching new services at an astonishing rate. The AWS product categories range from raw compute and database resources to storage, analytics, AI, game development, and mobile services to IoT solutions.

We will use AWS as a platform to apply DevOps techniques on. In the chapters to...

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