Scale and maintain outstanding performance in your AWS-based infrastructure using DevOps principles

Key FeaturesImplement continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines on AWSGain insight from an expert who has worked with Silicon Valley's most high-profile companiesImplement DevOps principles to take full advantage of the AWS stack and servicesBook Description

The DevOps movement has transformed the way modern tech companies work. Amazon Web Services (AWS), which has been at the forefront of the cloud computing revolution, has also been a key contributor to the DevOps movement, creating a huge range of managed services that help you implement DevOps principles.

Effective DevOps with AWS, Second Edition will help you to understand how the most successful tech start-ups launch and scale their services on AWS, and will teach you how you can do the same. This book explains how to treat infrastructure as code, meaning you can bring resources online and offline 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. Once you have gotten to grips will all this, we'll move on to how to scale your applications to offer maximum performance to users even when traffic spikes, by using the latest technologies, such as containers. In addition to this, you'll get insights into monitoring and alerting, so you can make sure your users have the best experience when using your service. In the concluding chapters, we'll cover inbuilt AWS tools such as CodeDeploy and CloudFormation, which are used by many AWS administrators to perform DevOps. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to ensure the security of your platform and data, using the latest and most prominent AWS tools.

What you will learnImplement automatic AWS instance provisioning using CloudFormationDeploy your application on a provisioned infrastructure with AnsibleManage infrastructure using TerraformBuild and deploy a CI/CD pipeline with Automated Testing on AWSUnderstand the container journey for a CI/CD pipeline using AWS ECSMonitor and secure your AWS environmentWho this book is for

Effective DevOps with AWS is for you if you are a developer, DevOps engineer, or you work in a team which wants to build and use AWS for software infrastructure. Basic computer science knowledge is required to get the most out of this book.

Yogesh Raheja is a certified DevOps and cloud expert with a decade of IT experience. He has expertise in technologies such as OS, source code management, build and release tools, continuous integration/deployment/delivery tools, containers, configuration management tools, monitoring, logging tools, and public and private clouds. He loves to share his technical expertise with audience worldwide at various forums, conferences, webinars, blogs, and LinkedIn. He has written Automation with Puppet 5 and Automation with Ansible and has published his online courses on Udemy. He has also reviewed multiple books for Packt like Implementing Splunk 7, Third Edition and Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook, Third Edition. Giuseppe Borgese is currently working as a DevOps AWS Specialist for Siemens. He possesses a master's degree in Internet Technology and is a certified AWS DevOps Engineer Professional holding 4 certifications. His contributions to the AWS community include a Youtube channel featuring a series of AWS Tutorials and numerous articles for renowned blogs such as LinuxAcademy. He also holds VMware and Cisco certifications. This is his second book and the first book published with Packt. In this book, the chapters, Scaling Your Infrastructure and Hardening the Security of Your AWS Environment have been contributed by him. Nathaniel Felsen is a DevOps engineer who started working on DevOps engineering concepts over 10 years ago, before the term was even coined. He worked in several companies ranging from small start-ups to enterprises, including Qualys, Square, and more recently, Medium. Outside of work, Nathaniel lives a fabulous life where he enjoys running after his very active kids and spending a fortune on occasional date nights with his wife. Although Nathaniel is French, he prefers exploring local stout beers with friends than drinking wine. He holds a MS degree in system, network, and security from Ecole Pour l'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées (EPITA), a top CS engineering school in France.

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